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Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse

Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse is situated at the most south westerly tip of Australia, standing at the point where the Indian and Southern Oceans meet

A famous maritime landmark, the tower stands 39 metres high from ground level and 56 metres above sea level. Its piercing beam, which has an intensity of one million candles, shines over the surrounding rugged sea and landscape for 26 nautical miles or 48 kilometres. Cape Leeuwin on which the lighthouse stands is also the start point for the Cape to Cape Track

Historic Waterwheel

The waterwheel built to power a hydraulic ram, which would pump water from the nearby swamp to supply the lighthouse and keepers cottages.

It became encrusted with a coatig of limestone and is now frozen in rock

Water from the spring still flows through the sluiceway to protect this historic feature from the ravages of ageing

scenes nearby

Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse - viewing from the Waterwhell

wildflowers nearby the Historic Waterwheel

impressive scenes at the Cave Road to The Cave

Lake Cave

Lake Cave is one of the deepest tourist caves. A series of stairways and paths descent down through a large doline. It is the deepest of the three show caves run by the Augusta Margaret River Tourism Association.

A Jarrah root growing down through the cave

viewing plateform at the top of the photo

scenes at the entrance

Entry access is through a spectacular doline - a large hole in the earth's surface

scenes inside the cave

heavily decorated with fragile white calcite straws, shawls, stalactites and stalagmites

A wondrous collection of straws

Suspended Table - a large flat area of flowstone supported just above the lake from above by two large columns

The "suspended table" which weighs several tonnes and is one of the only formations of its kind in the world

The lake never dries up and offers stunning reflections

Lake Cave, a mirrored wonderland, resembling a city scene in this photo

Canal Rocks

At Canal Rocks, granitic rocks jut into the ocean and are separated by a series of canals that have been hollowed out by the sea. One can traverse the canals by a series of narrow bridges to close up the rock

creating the canal arocks

Canal Rocks is essentially an open air museum of the geological features and rocks of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste ridge, which you can experience while surrounded by the powerful forces that have helped to shape this geology

immense power of the crashing surf

viewing from a high point

scenes nearby

Cape Naturaliste

walking path : Cape Naturaliste Loop (brown) --> detour Whale lookout trail (blue) --> return thru Lighthouse loop (red)

starting to walk Cape Naturaliste Loop, wildflowers along the way

viewing from the Naturaliste lookout

barren landscape

Cape Naturaliste

looking back, the lighthouse in the distance

more and more wildflowers after the lookout

野花覆蓋遍野

trail to the Whale Lookout

Whale lookout, but see no any whale

旅遊靠機緣 到多處whale-watching platform但都沒有鯨魚蹤影

South Ocean

Cape Naturaliste lighthouse viewing from the Lighthouse loop

Cape Naturaliste lighthouse stands on a 100m bluff overlooking Geographe Bay. Twenty metres high, the lighthouse was built in 1903, with limestone carted by bullock wagon from a quarry about a mile away.

Busselton Jetty

After a $27 million refurbishment, the heritage-listed Busselton Jetty extends almost 2km out over Geographe Bay and is the longest timber-piled jetty in the Southern Hemisphere

one can take train instead of walk the long jetty

Leschenault Peninsula at Bunbury

beautiful wetland

Richard Clayderman - Ballade pour Adeline致愛德琳的詩一首 (水邊的阿狄麗娜)