The Pinnacles desert is about a two hour drive north of Perth. As we were jet-lagged, we hired a driver/guide, Peter, who turned out to be a trivia expert as well as a font of local knowledge, including an excellent lunch recommendation – The Lobster Shack – on the way back to Perth.
The Pinnacles are a strange collection of limestone rocks, over which there is much debate as to how they were created. The most compelling theory seems to be that they are fossilised remains of an ancient forest. However Peter likes to think that they were built by aliens before building Stonehenge. We visted in a 40 degree heatwave, but this did have the advantage that noone else was there.
On the way we visited Two Rocks, the home of the failed Atlantis Marine Park, a 1980s venture of Alan Bond. The “attractions” have all been flattened, other than a massive statue of Neptune.
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