Friday 1 May Sandy Cape (North of Jurien Bay)

We spent the morning hanging out at Jo and Marks, and restocking all the provisions for the next week. Abby was doing very well saying all our names, and the kids enjoyed playing with their new cousin.
We headed off around lunchtime with plans to visit the Pinnacles in the late afternoon. However we were sidetracked for a few hours at the Gravity Discovery Centre at GinGin. The Gravity Centre is an interesting place to do some fun experiments about gravity. The highlight was climbing the leaning tower of GinGin and dropping water balloons. The Leaning Tower is about 45 meters high and leans with an angle of 15 degrees to replicate the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy. Apparantly Galileo tested the effects of gravity on different objects by dropping them from the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa.
A climb up 220 steps takes you to an extended platform which allows water balloons to be dropped into an enclosed drop zone. The tower provides wonderful views of the Western Australian sand plains. Had the added benefit of making us feel we had done something beneficial for the kids education.

Time was getting away as we realised we would be pressed to reach the Pinnacles before dark. We made it with about 15 minutes of daylight left, and drove around the Pinnacles circuit in record time, overtaking a few stray vans.

A quick photo op with Tim and the kids star jumping at the Pinnacles while Lara pretended she was a Pinnacle

Then we raced off into the sunset, with one eye on the lookout for kangaroos and the other looking for directions to Sandy Cape camp ground (good recommendation by Bec). We set up a makeshift camp by Wally’s headlights and after a hasty meal we all crashed out early.