The karma bus: Day 17 - Stromatolites

Geraldton - Denham
405 kms
24°c

On the road again, this time in the rain! First time we've really had any serious rain whilst driving, thankfully it didn't last too long.

A couple of the roadside sights today included wild goats, a big lizard and a tandem bicycle! oh and these really cool looking cubby houses of nature -reminded me of the thing that lived above ground in the back yard on Fraggle Rock!

Our schooling for today was based on the Solar System - Solar Walk on the ipad, very cool and worth a look.

A sign for the "Shell Quarry" & "Stromatolites" caught our eye as we were making our way up the very quiet road to Denham.

The Shell Quarry was amazing it looked like a moonscape or part of an archaeological dig, as though they were halfway through unearthing lost cities. In the olden days large blocks were cut out and used for building as timber was scarce. They are as hard as concrete and totally amazing, the shells release a type of calcium in the rain which forms a hard glue like substance when it dries.

The Stromatolites were cool, they are giant living rocks only found in three places on earth! They grow here because the water is twice as salty as normal sea water!

On arrival in Denham we found our caravan park and at first glance weren't all that pleased with our site as we were up quite high and not on the beach.

However after setting up and doing a spot of porching we realised we had a really awesome spot;
great view & somewhat sheltered from the West Coast Wind! The ground is rock hard! No hammering the pegs in here, had to break out the big boys!