Day 186 - Around Elliston

Another beautiful day beckoned us out to see the sights around Elliston.  Given Elliston is on the coast we were not surprised to find most of the sights are beaches, bays and cliffs.

Talia Caves was our first target.  These were variations on a limestone cliff.  The first one, The Wool Shed, had the sea eroding well back into and under the cliff face.  It would be really spectacular if the waves were larger than they were today.  Mind you it was a bit of a relief not being blown around as we have been on previous days.  The second cave wasn't really a cave but has been dubbed "The Tub".  It is a depression open to the surface and about 20 m deep and about 40m across.  It looked as if the sea would reach inside it only when there was a very big sea running.  

091014 The steps down to "The Wool Shed"

091014 "The Woolshed" - the cave goes about 40m into the cliff

091014 "The Tub".  The reddish sandstone base under
the centre shadow extends to the sea

091014 Looking at "The Tub" from the seaward side

091014 The reddish sandstone slab extending from "The Tub" to the sea

Memorial Lookout completed our Talia caves visit. There was a memorial there to a woman, Esther D B Millard who accidentally drowned there on 24 June 1928.

091014 Looking north from the Monument Lookout

091014 Looking south from the Monument Lookout

Next came Walker's Rock and what a disappointment this was.  It was in Anxious Bay and it was not very large really.  One might better describe it as a very small island.  Many miles to sea were the much larger Waldegrave Islands.  We took in Cape Finness.

091014 Walker's Rock in Anxious Bay

091014 Anxious Bay - nothing to be anxious about here

091014 Waldegrave Islands off Cape Finniss

By then we were on the Elliston Clifftop Drive which provided more cliff views but was added to by some unusual statues placed along the clifftops.  Even the Gnome got involved with a couple of these "statues".

091014 The Gnome and a surfing buddy on the Clifftop Drive

091014 Another monument on Clifftop Drive

091014 The Gnome made friends with these Easter Islanders
on the Clifftop Drive

091014 Name it and you can have it - on the Clifftop Drive

091014 Another statue on the Clifftop Drive

The Clifftop Drive ended up overlooking Waterloo Bay, the town of Elliston and finally the "Historic Jetty" on which wool and grain used to be carried to coastal freighters in the olden days.  To finish the day we drove over to the southern headland of Waterloo Bay.

091014 The entrance to Waterloo Bay taken from the northern
side with the town of Elliston on the southern shore

091014 Elliston's "Historical Jetty"

091014 The entrance to Waterloo Bay taken from the southern side

Today's trivia:

• House moving on a day like today? Not us.

091014 We moved over - for both of them!

• Even the locals were active on a beautiful day.

091014 Friendly? Think not!

• Think of the trees on the clifftops when the wind blows.

091014 A 180 degree tree