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Beach walk and Cape Kidnappers Gannet Reserve

The beach to the cape features impressive towering cliffs which expose  many rock types and fault lines. The cape is also the world biggest mainland colony of nesting gannets with over 7000 pairs of Australasian Gannets.  So it’s listed as one of the wonders in the book of "1001 Natural Wonders".

Cape Kidnappers除了是世界最大的澳洲塘鵝陸地上棲息地  更有雄偉岩壁  岩壁上佈滿不同形態岩石及溝壑  真是氣象萬千 怪不得被列入 1001世界奇觀
 

 

Walking along the beach and going up the Plateau

 

starting from camping ground carpark

 

attracted by the spectacular towering cliffs when entering the beach

 

many rock types and fault lines

 

The cliffs are made up of sandstone, river gravel, pumice and silt, originally deposited between 300,000 to 1 million years ago.

岩石造型各異 氣象萬千 好景讓人目不暇給

 

the fragmented fault and tilt lines along the cliffs telling the story of many earthquake upheavals and movements

不同年代岩層清晰可見

 

峭壁是鬆散的沉積岩  因此不要太靠近峭壁以防落石

 

wildlife sanctuary at the  top of the cliffs

 

shore vegetation

 

interesting rock formation

 

峽谷景觀

 

避難所

 

more and more spectacular geological cliff formations

 

到達塘鵝保留區

 

開始看到飛鳥

 

海岸景觀

 

塘鵝棲息地主要是Saddle colony, Black Reef colony, 和Plateau colony

 這裡是Black Reef colony 可近距離觀看塘鵝

不同的海岸景觀

 

Plateau colony的步道入口 - 約25min可到達Plateau colony

費時1.5h到達這裡(9 km)   應該可以很輕鬆走回去 正好看到tractor and trailer tour來到  碰到好司機  10元(一般得20元)就可搭車回停車場  落得輕鬆

toilet and information panel 

 

viewing from a high point

 

Saddle colony – viewing from the Plateau. It’s really a superb view.
 

Gannet colony at Whalebone Beach

 

Plateau colony - The main place for viewing the nesting gannets.  Good panoramic views from this elevated headland.

 

close up

 

小塘鵝(gannet chick)已成長了

 

飛行雄姿

 

回程撘tractor and trailer

 

導遊除了講解 並做一些很fun的事  衝到水中讓鞋子都漸到水  輾過大石讓車子呈半翻狀態 ...

 

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