Today we are living in the lap of luxury having booked into the Kalbarri Anchorage Caravan Park for a couple of nights. 

Last nights camp was another in a long line of excellent free 'rest' areas in WA. There were about 39 plus vans there sharing 2 sets of toilets and 2 dump stations. I am confident that this attracts many travelling people like us and must be a big benefit to the local economy. 

On the road it soon became obvious that we were back in farming country. The scenery was green fields ready for harvesting, green trees and shrubs and quite a range on wildflowers. It was pretty and quite a contrast to the rugged spendour of Northern areas. The criticism is often levelled that WA has long distances between attractions. This is true if you only consider the major attractions, but the roads have their own sightseeing value provided you think along those lines. There will always be people who disagree because they are not really taking in the continual beauty as they travel, and this applies to all the places that we have been to (admittedly we still have an great deal more to see). 

Anyway we arrived at the Kabarri National Park and stopped to see the sights. The first was a lookout called the Ross Graham Lookout, we now choose to call it the Graham Lookout! This was a magnificent sight looking down on the Murchison River and the walk down to the river was well worth the effort. Us city people don't realise the size and extent of the outback. This river is 820 km long winding all the way from Merkatharra to the coast here at Kalbarri. It is easy to say and easy to read but try for a moment to visualise the scale of this river and all the others up and down this coast. Just to put it in perspective the Swan is only about 100 km, I think!