In my last few weeks in WA I am trying to do a spot of sight-seeing. This place truly is beautiful, and it seems a shame that I have seen so little of it in my two years here. So earlier this week Janet, Heath and I took a quick 3-day road trip to the Pinnacles on the coast, and New Norcia a little bit inland, all within a couple of hundred kilometres of Perth.
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| Arriving early to catch the sunrise |
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| This odd assortment of shapes and sizes covers a relatively small area, and the theories around their formation are just that - theories. |
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| Sunrise! |
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| One theory is that these lumps were once the root system of large tuart trees, and that the original soil line was much higher than what we see now. |
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| Wildflowers at the side of the road |
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| The New Norcia Hotel, where we stayed. Originally built as accommodation for the parents visiting the pupils at the (European) schools. |
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| The Abbey Church |
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| Decorated in the 1960s using a traditional style, where coloured plaster is put on the walls in layers, and then scraped back to give the effect of illustration |
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| The monastery where the Benedictine monks live |
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| Abandoned building made from bricks manufactured onsite |
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| Oven doors of the now-defunct Mill House |
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| Inside the chapel of the (European) Boy's School |
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| There were lots of walls everywhere - walls to keep boys away from girls, and to keep Aboriginals away from Europeans | |
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| Chapel in the (European) Girls' School, Saint Gertrudes |
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