{"id":571,"date":"2016-01-28T02:27:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T02:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/?p=571"},"modified":"2019-03-25T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T22:58:51","slug":"pinnacles-road-trip-kalbarri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/pinnacles-road-trip-kalbarri\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving through The Pinnacles and Kalbarri in Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The west coast of Australia. A part of the world where sunsets and surf are celebrated, and where desert land and gorges repeatedly play second fiddle. But strike the right chord on that instrument and you\u2019ll find the perfect harmony: epic landscapes, refreshing destinations and a distinct contrast in location. This is exactly what we discovered when we took our Toyota Corolla (Betty) from the Pinnacles Desert to Kalbarri National Park.<\/p>\n

Leaving Perth behind, we did so knowing that we wouldn\u2019t be seeing a big city for quite some time. And the drive from the Pinnacles (in Nambung National Park) to Kalbarri is world away from tall buildings with bank logos and heaving public transport. The bright yellow sands of a remote desert are just a few hours in a car from the dark red gorges of a national park, with a coast that looks out to the Indian Ocean lining them both.<\/p>\n

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Limestone pillars looking like shards of honeycomb in Nambung National Park<\/p><\/div>\n

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The remnants of an old jetty in Jurien Bay<\/p><\/div>\n

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A section of Hutt Lagoon (the Pink Lake) in Port Gregory<\/p><\/div>\n

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In the centre of Rainbow Valley in Kalbarri<\/p><\/div>\n

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Walking through the bush to Z-Bend Gorge<\/p><\/div>\n

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A car parked up on the rocks of Red Bluff beach in Kalbarri<\/p><\/div>\n

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Staring out across the Indian Ocean towards a west coast sunset<\/p><\/div>\n

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Class 4 walking trail through Rainbow Valley<\/p><\/div>\n

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The view from the top of Z-Bend Gorge<\/p><\/div>\n

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Rainbow Valley to Mushroom Rock coastal trek in Kalbarri National Park<\/p><\/div>\n

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Looking out from \u201cNature\u2019s Window\u201d to the Loop and the gorge<\/p><\/div>\n

Words by Dean Harries. Images by the lovely Trina Gill. You can check out their adventures on their Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The west coast of Australia. A part of the world where sunsets and surf are celebrated, and where desert land and gorges repeatedly play second fiddle. But strike the right…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[176,139,167,174,62,140,38],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-jurien-bay","tag-kalbarri","tag-kalbarri-national-park","tag-overland","tag-photography","tag-pinnacles","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adventuretours.com.au\/australia-outback-yarns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}