Description of the attraction
Nambung and Pinnacle National Park covers 184 km² in the vast hilly Swan Valley 162 km north of Perth. The park is bordered by the Southern Bikipers Nature Reserve to the north and the Vanagarren Protected Area to the south.
The first surviving records of the Nambung region were made by Europeans in the mid-17th century, when Swan Valley was mapped to Dutch maps. In the language of local aborigines, the word "nambung" means "curved" - this was the name of the river flowing through the valley and gave the name to the park.
Here you can wander along the beautiful calm beaches and coastal sand dunes, walk through thickets of eucalyptus trees and breathe in the scent of flowers in the lowlands. The flowering season lasts from August to October - it is at this time of the year that thousands of tourists come here to enjoy the lush vegetation. Among the thickets, you can find gray kangaroos - friendly animals that easily make contact with humans. It is also inhabited by ostriches emu and black cockatoo with a white tail, as well as reptiles, which are completely safe for humans.
But perhaps the most significant attraction of Nambung Park is the breathtaking Pinnacles Desert, which somehow finds itself in the center of a lushly blooming valley in some incomprehensible way. Thousands of limestone towers of various sizes, towering over the yellow-red sands, are one of Australia's most recognizable images. Some connoisseurs consider this landscape to be similar to the Martian valley of Kydonia! This desert remained relatively unexplored until the late 1960s when it became part of the Nambung National Park. The building material for pinnacles is the remains of sea mollusks that lived in these places hundreds of thousands of years ago, when the sea was splashing here. The mechanism of formation of these unique natural creations is still not fully understood. Up to 250 thousand people come to admire these formations every year. It is believed that the best time for this is early morning or dusk, when the towers cast ghostly shadows in the rays of the rising or setting sun.
