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.

Hutt Lagoon is a naturally occurring pink lake which is coloured by a particular type of bacteria which reside in the lake.  Suffice to say, the almost alien landscape is quite a contrast to the surrounding green hills.

There’s something so wonderfully optimistic and maybe naive about the single metal signs on the fringes of rural towns extolling their virtues.  Port Gregory’s is no different, telling you all about trading hours at the local store and about the CWA and local tennis club.

Faded, rusting, you can’t but wonder what it was like when the sign was first put up.

Coastal Kalbarri.

A wave preempts a break in the Indian Ocean, south of Kalbarri.

Kalbarri is a coastal anomaly in Western Australia as it’s the only area in the southern half of the state where sandstone meets the ocean.  In general, south to Perth and north to the North West shelf, all of the cliffs are limestone.  This anomaly makes for a fantastic melange of contrasting colours.

Coastal sandstone fringed by low shrubs south of Kalbarri.