Francois Peron National Park, Western Australia

Francois Peron National Park, Western Australia

 

 

Located on the Coral Coast, Francois Peron National Park sits within the Shark Bay World Heritage Area and is a study in contrasts; rich-red cliffs and desert sands give way to powdersoft white-sand beaches that melt into startlingly blue ocean waters, creating an arresting natural triptych. Covering 52,000 hectares on the Peron Peninsula, known as Wulyibidi to the local Malgana Aboriginal people, the park encompasses arid shrub lands and sun-bleached sand plains, but the watery wonderland at its edge is the real drawcard.

 

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The duality of the desert and the ocean in Francois Peron means there is plentiful and  diverse fauna to be found here. (Image: Tourism Western Australia)

There’s an interpretive centre and a self-guided walk trail. (Image: Tourism Western Australia)

The most glorious way to get an insight into just how pristine the waters that lap Francois Peron National Park. (Image: Tourism Western Australia, @christianfletcher)

Francois Peron National Park sits within the Shark Bay World Heritage Area and is a study in contrasts. (Image: Tourism Western Australia)

 

 

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A place where “the desert meets the sea”

Francois Peron National Park, Western Australia

 

Francois Peron National Park Ebenfalls Haie, Stingrays und Turtles. Alle in trauter Gemeinschaft ohne Zwist und Beißereien.

 

 

Francois Peron National Park is a national park on the Peron Peninsula in Western Australia, 726 kilometres (451 mi) north of Perth, and located within the boundary of the Shark Bay World Heritage area. The nearest towns to the park are Denham, which is found on the southern edge of the park and Carnarvon which is found about 80 kilometres (50 mi) to the north.

 

 

A salt encrusted branch on a super saline "birrida" in Francois Peron National Park

 

There is also an eponymous locality of the Shire of Shark Bay, but the boundaries of the national park and the locality are not identical.

 

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The deep red Iron Ore cliffs meeting the turqouise waters of Shark Bay at the end of Bottle Bay in Francois Peron National Park, Western Australia

 

Francois Peron National Park, Western Australia

Next to the open waters of Shark Bay, green streams and blue lagoons ripple amid deep red dunes in Francois Peron National Park, one of several protected areas upon the bay. In the tinted bedrock below the dunes, cut-out cave shelters offer proof of Aboriginal peoples' long history fishing and shellfishing the rich bay (known in the Malgana tongue as Gutharraguda, or 'two waters'). Just offshore, something even older sways in the waves: The bay's seagrass fields are one huge clonal plant, sprouted millennia ago from a single seed and now considered the largest organism on Earth.

 

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Francois Peron National Park

 

 

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Shell Beach

Little Lagoon

 

Skipjack Point

Ocean Park Aquarium

Eagle Bluff Lookout

Monkey Mia Reserve

Cape Peron

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