A choose your own adventure path on the shores of Herdsman Lake.

Sailing away from Kalbarri for a few days, we return to Perth and Herdsman Lake at near dusk.

One word: warmth.  At least, as much as winter can bring you.  Just east of Port Gregory.

The view from inside Sanford’s house.

Captain Henry Sanford resided in this building during the time that he was superintendent of the Lynton Hiring Station during the 1850s.  The house has undergone some repair and restoration, however is still quite original and impressive.  More photos to come!

A field of wild flowers prepares to erupt in a carpet of colour near Port Gregory.

The mid afternoon glow bathes the Lynton ruins in a very warm light.

The jail at Lynton Hiring Station looks, based on its ruins, to have been a horrible place to be incarcerated.  The peaceful sandstone ruins don’t in anyway paint the picture of what it must have been like, but the tiny, narrow cells certainly let the mind wander.

A century or more of aggregated graffiti adorns the walls of the ruins inside.

On another note, I’m heading back to the Kalbarri region for another self imposed long weekend, so the updates will stop here for a couple of days, but, there will be lots of new photos (hopefully with some wildflowers) from next week.

Lynton Convict Depot was, as the very name suggests, a holding station for convict labour where local farmers or business owners could come to ‘hire’ convict labour.  Open for only four years due to the harsh conditions, it is one of the finest example of convict area Western Australian buildings still in tact in a regional area.