Sunday 14th October: Hamelin Pool – Kalbarri 342km Russell lead

After breakfast we went for a walk up the hill behind the camp/telegraph station, to the shell quarry onto the Stromatolites and back to camp. Drove back to the Overlander Roadhouse on the North West Coastal Highway to refuel and air up before continuing along on a straight we started a couple of days ago before turning off to Steep Point. The straight – 102.8km in total! Towards the turn off to Kalbarri we started noticing trees along the side of the road rather than shrubs and a while later saw cultivated farm land with fields of wheat. Turning off to Kalbarri we meandered through the Kalbarri National Park calling in at several lookouts all offering spectacular views over the Murchison River. We arrived in Kalibarri a modern and picturesque town situated on the coast at the mouth of the Murchison River.