Western Adventure - Day 2

Day 2 saw us leave the New Essperence Hotel Perth bound for Wave Rock some 350 km East. The rain from the previous day had well and truly set in and it seems that Cheryl and I keep going to place that are usually hot only to find them bleak and wet. An early start saw us make good time and by lunch we had reached Hayden and were only 4 km from the famous rock.

Having checked in at the Wave Rock Hotel we drove on to the rock. The rock was a truly impressive piece of natural sculpture being as it looks in the pictures I had seen of it - very much a petrified curved wall of stone looking like a perfect wave.
There were some amazing wildflowers growing around and near the rock. Some nice red ones and other yellow and orange star shaped one. We walked around the rock for a distance but then it started to rain so we went back to the restaurant and souvenir shop where we saw some amazing black swans swimming in the pool at the back of the restaurant. Had a niece pie with salad for lunch. After lunch we drove back to the hotel and unloaded our bags and gear.

After we settled in to our room we decided to go back and take another look at Wave Rock. This time we took a longer walk toward Hippos Mouth as it is known but we turned back as I was worried that it might rain and we had no umbrella.

I enjoyed seeing Wave Rock and found it an interesting place. I was rather amazed at the noise the wind makes as it blows past the rock - it sounds very much like the sound made by cars as they fight there way to work. Quite an eerie spooky feeling ...