We started by walking the loop in a counter-clockwise direction. The beginning is a mild uphill stroll, past the Hovea Falls (which I already covered and photographed in an earlier blog post) and through lush forest.
Shortly after passing this straight down-and-up part of the track we met a family from Serbia which, unlike us, had an actual map of the National Park with them. Lucky for them, they knew sort of where they were. We, however, had the luck of finding out just then and there that we were currently on a short-cut that by-passes the the northern part of the loop. Unwilling to trace back and re-attempt the missed part of the track we soldiered on...
James in his element.
Teeny tiny waterfall in John Forrest National Park
This is a vertical Panorama of this tree, consisting of 5 separate exposures
Skippy and his mate - we later saw roughly another 20 or so Kangaroos along the Eagle View Trail
Time for a break, with stunning views of the rolling hills and the Perth skyline in the far distance
Micro organisms
The burned bark of a log on the side of the trail
This final image(I doubt these rock paintings are real, but they still make for a nice photo) was shot on the western edge of the National Park, after we, admittedly, got a little lost.
Just before the sun had completely set, we traced our path back to the critical intersection and kept on going, stopping here and there for a few night time shots of the city and some small waterfalls (James took these images). Along the way, unfortunately in the dark, we saw some great boulders and rock formations for which we will definitely have to come back and shoot them during daylight. We spent about an hour walking in the dark, luckily for us we brought some torches and, as I just found out today, were lucky enough to do this trail during the 'Supermoon' so that we were provided with enough ambient light to see where we were going.
Unfortunately we found that the trail itself is pretty badly marked out. We lost our way two times (and that was in bright day light) and sometimes had to check the gps for our coordinates. It seemed as though the trail was laid out for a clock-wise approach. Since we walked counter-clockwise though, we missed a few of the track markers.
All in all though it was a great track. We saw lots of wildlife and waterfalls, met a few friendly folks along the way, saw the amazing WA sunset and the city lights at night from the Eagle View lookout. :)
Just before the sun had completely set, we traced our path back to the critical intersection and kept on going, stopping here and there for a few night time shots of the city and some small waterfalls (James took these images). Along the way, unfortunately in the dark, we saw some great boulders and rock formations for which we will definitely have to come back and shoot them during daylight. We spent about an hour walking in the dark, luckily for us we brought some torches and, as I just found out today, were lucky enough to do this trail during the 'Supermoon' so that we were provided with enough ambient light to see where we were going.
Unfortunately we found that the trail itself is pretty badly marked out. We lost our way two times (and that was in bright day light) and sometimes had to check the gps for our coordinates. It seemed as though the trail was laid out for a clock-wise approach. Since we walked counter-clockwise though, we missed a few of the track markers.
All in all though it was a great track. We saw lots of wildlife and waterfalls, met a few friendly folks along the way, saw the amazing WA sunset and the city lights at night from the Eagle View lookout. :)
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