These two prongs of land are a world heritage site and form Australia’s westernmost point. Denham is the only settlement on the peninsula and there are several ‘points of interest’ along the way. Shell Beach is made up of billions of tiny cockle white shells several metres deep. It eventually compacts down under its own weight and the shell blocks are cut for use in local buildings. All the backpacker tours stop here and obviously ‘the thing to do’ is carve your name on the beach (some Scottish lads had drawn very rude things in the shallows!) 
View from Eagle Bluff
View from Eagle Bluff
The Stromatolites at Hamelin Pool are considered ‘living fossils’ – direct descendents of the first life-forms 3 billion years ago. These colonies of cynobacteria oxygenated the planet, changing the Earth’s atmosphere and allowing more complex organisms to evolve.
Monkey Mia on the east side seems to get all the attention, when it’s nothing more than a beach resort that feeds a pod of dolphins daily for the tourists. Wish we hadn’t bothered really, but we had some lunch and a swim and then moved on when it was cooler.
Drove late that night and had to keep a look out for the kangaroos, cattle, sheep and emu that insist on standing on the road or running in front of you. Eventually we reached the Lyndon River rest area and camped up for the night. A man in a truck pulled up later and much ‘curtain-twitching’ went on until we were satisfied that he was indeed just a man in a truck needing to sleep and not a weirdo.
