Francois Peron National Park, Western Australia

Little Lagoon

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

 

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.

 

Red cliffs at Bottle Bay