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Come join me, won't you? - I love our rocky, coastal beaches and their white sands.






Duckstein Brewery at Saracen Estates - while we went here after all the beachy places, I thought I'd put the photos here. It's a merger of a winery, and a brewery, and it also includes a restaurant.





And has very nice statues around the place. - And koi in the ponds/lakes framing the estate.





The rearview, with grape vines coming right down to the building itself.





My altbier, and the taster tray of five beers that were currently on offer; the pilsner, maidock, altbier, hefeweiss, and dunkel. I may have gotten a little bit tipsy, and then let the world know on Twitter and Facebook about how very good-natured that made me. Alas, I don't have a photo of the amazing kangaroo pie I ordered, but nevertheless, it was amazing.





The view from where we sat.





Conto's Road - It starts off like a regular road, and then quite quickly starts to become this epic.





Better not die while you're here!





A snaily-snail - I had gotten out of the car to remove some branches from the middle of the road, and saw this snail valiantly and slowly making its way to a tastier looking branch.





The grassed area at Conto's Point - we went here once on art and biology camp, and I remember going around everywhere with some textas and oil pastels, drawing things. Because you know, it's fucking amazing to draw.





Just in case you didn't get it the first time; don't die!





I could live here. - I joked to Glen at one point that maybe I could become a hunched over old woman living in the undergrowth with a little tarp, foraging for snails and shellfish. And Glen, after a beat, said 'you know, we could make that happen. I could just drop you off right now if you like.' And then we laughed. But I considered it, because I am very very strange.





A lone sooty oystercatcher.





See how high that swell is? Yeah. It was very high. And getting higher. Glen and I actually ended up having to run away, because the swells were getting so high they were going to inundate us.





Here we are, pre-creepy-swell. Isn't that amazing? It was freezing, but that made it even better, because it meant we could hike all over the place and not get hot under the Western Australian sun.





Then we went to Merchant Rock and Round Rock, and decided to be silly. Because we can't help it.













No one knows what Glen is doing here, not even Glen himself. I think he's rock surfing. Or... something.





There were amazing textures everywhere. Australia has the oldest geography in the world, and Western Australia the oldest out of Australia.





This massive granite rock looked like it just got tired of holding together. Or maybe a giant came along and broke a giant oyster on it or something.





Amazing textures everywhere.





No, really. Just everywhere.





Everywhere you looked, the scenery was just perfect. - And do you want to hear something sad? I had better internet and phone signals here, in the middle of no where, off-road, than I do in the suburb of Ellenbrook where I live.





This is Settler's Cove - by now, Glen and I were having fun going to every off-road section of Conto's Road, though we were very unimpressed by the Slopeys, which are more designed for rock fishing, I'm pretty sure, than spectacularness.





I could live here.





These would be the steps up to my little shack





These would be my crossroads, and up ahead, a little granite rock to sit on.





And, you know, this would be where I'd... just stare in awe because come ON.









Grey fantail. - Not remotely perturbed by us.





Don't forget to look up.





Don't forget to look out to sea





The paths are also very moody. And thankfully very compacted due to a lot of heavy rain. Sandy paths are very annoying.













Sea spray and salt - I was constantly having to clean my glasses and my camera lens because of the sea spray that was heavy in the air (for anyone who wears glasses, they know they kind of residue it leaves by going to the ocean on a really windy day!)





But it's okay, when you've got views like this.




Join me on the fourth and final day for the raptor rehabilitation centre, some kites in flight, and a very awesome white-bellied sea eagle. Oh, and some Prevelly on a rainy day.

Date: 2011-07-03 03:51 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] drgnhlr
Love, love, love, love the geology!

Showed the man (husband) and he says "She's cute" :D I thought I'd share, and yes, I got permission :) (Direct words are "very pretty face, and nice smile"). I agree with him.

Date: 2011-07-03 12:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] feralkiss
I totally dig the colours of the landscape with the sky on many of those pictures! And the textures, oh my. Thank you so much for sharing these.

Date: 2011-07-04 01:33 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] feralkiss
The place seems amazing; makes me a little homesick as well, because some of the colours are very similar. :)

Date: 2011-07-03 03:40 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] stephbg
Now might be time to let you know that I mentioned you in tonight's post about rocks: http://stephbg.livejournal.com/630407.html

I'm quite interested in your reaction, if you'd care to share.

Date: 2011-07-04 03:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] stephbg
Many thanks. I'd like to tell you about my animal tattoos one day. I think you'd like this piece of rock: http://stephbg.livejournal.com/620153.html

...and for purposes of continuity, may I copy your comment into the post it references? I know you're not keen on LJ so I can make it anonymous if you wish.

Date: 2011-07-03 06:29 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ariestess
These are some gorgeous shots. The pics of you and Glen made me giggle, particularly at his antics in the background. And that snail? LOVE!

Date: 2011-07-05 04:24 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] silverjackal
Super photos. I keep scrolling back and forth, admiring various ones, and it's almost impossible to pick a favorite. My first thought was "I've had Duckstein!" Sadly it was just their pilsner, and I wasn't particularly impressed. (I'm not a fan of pilsners generally, with the exception of some black ones.) Their other beers sound very interesting, and of course if they're on tap there's no comparison to the bottle.

Of the landscape photos, I'm particularly struck by the one of the grassy area by Conto's point, but everything is rugged and beautiful. And you and Glen look like you were having a great time! :) (Be fore warned, I may come back and babble about these pictures some more, though I realize it's already belated. It's just that I've only got about four functioning brain cells left, and I'm about to head to bed, so I'm going to come back and look at these again when I can appreciate them properly.)

Date: 2011-07-05 11:27 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] silverjackal
I was curious enough that I looked for a link, and you're right the Duckstein I had is German, from Hamburg. It's an unfortunate source of confusion that there are two with the same name globally.

Date: 2011-07-05 06:04 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gemfyre
What is it about the south-west coast? It's just so utterly amazing and breathtaking. I guess also, I've never really been down south in Summer. We would always go down there on winter holidays, so I have this association with whipping arctic winds and angry surf.

You might be interested in taking a look at a post I made waaaay back in 1993 after I went to Albany - http://gemfyre.livejournal.com/241165.html

Date: 2011-07-05 02:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] hrafn
Oh, wow, that coast! I love that kind of rough terrain with low, scrubby plants and things :) And the first photo of Conto's Road = stunning. "Epic" is about right.

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