After Christmas, Andy and I had a couple of days off together so we went down to Nambung National Park, about 200k south of us on the coast, to see the Pinnacles. The Pinnacle Desert is a big tourist attraction which attracts over 250,000 visitors a year. It's about 17,000 hectares and is covered with thousands of limestone Pinnacles, some up to 5m tall.
I visited here in 1997 and, in those days, you could just rock up and have a look. Now you have to join a queue of cars to get in and pay an entrance fee. Then, at the end, is the ubiquitous Interpretive Centre and shop. It always makes me feel that I've got to go and learn about what I've just seen rather than just enjoy it. And buy something from the shop (which I did of course).
Billy Connelly went there in his World Tour of Australia programme and ran naked through the Pinnacles sparking a rash of similar escapades which you can find on Youtube. I asked Andy to for the sake of this blog but he declined. Probably just as well. Might have started a Flash Mob Streak!