Category - Attractions
Below is a list of all the pages on this website which I've categorised as being about scenic and natural attractions which don't fit any of my other categories.
Click on the titles (or the "read more" links) to go to that page.
Lake Grace hospital museum
Lake Grace is a small town in Western Australia's southern wheatbelt. While it doesn't boast major tourist attractions (or many tourists), it does have a unique and very well presented hospital museum which provides a glimpse of how the Australian Inland Mission brought medical care to the outback nearly a century ago. Read more ...
Sunsets at the Albany Wind Farm
The coastal wind farm near Albany attracts visitors; mainly to view the turbines. If you time your visit right, it can also be an excellent spot to view and photograph the sunset over a great stretch of unspoiled coastline. Read more ...
Pupu Springs, NZ
Places with interesting names usually draw my attention, so when I came across a sign for Pupu Springs I just had to have a look. Despite the unsanitory sounding name, it turned out to be a place of purity and beauty. Read more ...
Mulka's Cave, WA
Last time I passed by Wave Rock, one of Western Australia's well known attractions, I dropped in for a look. But the famous rock wasn't the highlight of that day for me: instead it was a less-visited site not far away, known as Mulka's Cave. Read more ...
Lake Clifton thrombolites
The stromatolites of Shark Bay, on Western Australia's north western coast, are well publicised in the tourist literature. However you don't need to go to such a remote place to see these pre-historic living rocks. Their close cousins - thrombolites - can be seen just south of Mandurah, within 100km of Perth. Read more ...
The little pinnacles of Cape Leeuwin
The Nambung National Park north of Perth contains what must be the most impressive examples anywhere of limestone pillars, but lesser examples can be found elsewhere ... such as this patch of dwarf pinnacles near Cape Leeuwin. Read more ...
Elephant Rocks, WA
Having visited Elephant Rocks in New Zealand, I was keen to also check out Elephant Rocks in Western Australia to compare them, and see which ones look most like elephants. Read more ...
Elephant Rocks, NZ
Having once studied geology, interesting rock formations often find their way into my travel itinerary. Elephant Rocks in New Zealand was no exception ... plus I wanted to see if they really look like elephants. Read more ...
