Pinnacles
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The Pinnacles is a weird area about 200km up the coast north from Perth in the Nam Bung National Park. According to early European sailors who came upon the area, it was the ruins of an ancient city. Moden geologists tell us it is the result of the laying down of a huge limestone sediment (billions of seashells) which has been eroded away except in a few unusually hard places. Hence the standing stones. There are about 150,000 of them! It is a very strange idea. The only thing about it that rings true is the fact that the wind in that area is savage. It would be easy to see how over millennia it could turn the limestone into sand. |
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The weird looking yellow flowering plant on the left of this picture is an Australian Christmas tree, so called because it flowers at Christmas. This particular specimen is bent in a very curious way, as a result of the extreme winds. More typical speciments we found further down the coast can be seen by clicking this link. Christmas trees. |
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