pinnacles

Don't do it!

It can be a "challenging" trip, especially if you misread the tide chart and there is an extra high tide.
There is no point in washing the entire vehicle in sea water or bogging it in seaweed covered sand. It takes bl**dy hours to get all the sand from all the corners of the vehicle.

Believe Me... I made that mistake once, never again.

Disco

Funny that, I've been up there twice and from Lancelin followed coastal tracks from potholed sand to limestone goat tracks all the way to the pinnacles. Never once did I have to drive on the beach, just where does one detour for the beach stint? Is that a recent track as I have not been up there for a few years now?
Klaus

Hello - there is a section that can be driven along the beach from Wedge Island north. Not sure of the distance maybe 8km at most. The beach then narrows and you have to go inland again.

Cheers
Greg

Klaus,
The main track out of Lancelin through the dunes, keep on this for about 10-12km there is a well worn left turn off the main track and over a small hill. This leads to the beach (approx 10km)via a place called Narrow Neck. The beach is usually great in summer but is mostly difficult during winter, it is still passable, the locals use it most days by watching the tide.
There have been many vehicles lost in the ocean here over the years.if you stick to summer it is a fantastic run all the way to Wedge Island and further north until you must leave the beach in order to continue to Cervantes and the Pinnacles

Goldfine

14.6 Windsor rapid

thanks for replies, i guess its the long way then.

Hi Slush - i don't think it will be much different to when we tried it - talk about a "loooooong-cut" - the Highway certainly is the short way home.

Van or no van,the bitumen is the quick way

Sure is Ross; in fact with a van it would be no way! We went up and down some steep sand hills - a bit like one way traffic - up one way up, then down another because no way would you get anything up through loose sand on at least one of the slopes.

I disagree. I've been up there a number of times for a day trip.

Pinnacles - Stromatalites in Lake Thetis - late lunch in Cervantes pub. All good.

Cheers

i kept waiting for a naked Billy Connolly to jump out from behind one and dance around....

weeeellll that's what he did when he went there!

Fair call....I dont have any plans of rushing back to see it again but I enjoyed the first viewing.

As to whether its overated tourist attraction...well to me its more the area. You get to see the landscape, a fascinating formation and an awesome coastline.

I guess if you drove flat out along the highway to the pinnacles, spun around the loop and back on the highway to Perth...then it would be overated...pretty sad way to experience Aust, dont you think?

Im with Stephen...slow down and enjoy it!

My 2c Matt.

Last time I went up , I had a leisurely drive up there leaving Perth early ,had a look around the Pinnacles, nice swim on the beaches of Jurien ,booked into the Jurien pub , had a meal there and got on the booze with the locals.
Come home the next day with hangover and a good time time under my belt;)

Sorry Rambler I think you are wrong

Any one who's ever been at the Pinnacles at sunrise, midday, sunset and, perhaps most spectacular of all, Full moon will never consider it over rated.

It's a place of great beauty and ,unless the hoons are racing round, a place of great serenity

IMHO well worth visit whenever I'm in the area.

Disco