Where the desert meets the sea - Carnarvon to Denham

25th June 2014

I think large parts of the west coast should be renamed 'null arbor' as we saw fewer trees today than on the Nullarbor.  The mostly flat desert, broken up here and there with sand dunes sweeps all the way down to the sea where there is an abrupt change from red sand dunes to white.

View to Shark Bay across the desert

Getting to Denham is a long drive down the mainland coast then across the end of Shark Bay and up the other side.  The weather was glorious - no wind and brilliant sunshine.








We settled into an enormous caravan park which is right next to the bay behind some dunes so it was a quick climb up to see yet another beautiful sunset this evening.

Jetty on Shark Bay

Prior to that we had a wander around town and started to plan what we want to do whilst here.

Beach adjacent to the caravan park

The entire shark bay area, land and sea is World Heritage listed so there is plenty of wildlife.  The land animals have been given a boost recently by the construction of a fence across the isthmus leading onto the Peron Peninsula.  Known as Project Eden, the fence keeps out feral animals and the ones already on the peninsula have been selectively poisoned.  This has been done using an Australian plant toxin to which native wildlife are tolerant.  Having cleared the feral animals some rare and endangered mammals lost to the region have been re-introduced.