I’ve always wanted to slag off the ultra pathetic Pinnacles properly, but it’s kinda like making fun of that dude sending out his records at random. Like kicking sand in the face of an old rock when it’s down. By Cimbali.This is one of the state’s biggest tourist drawcards? And by draw I mean crap and by card I mean a long dispiriting drive away.
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Pinnacles are great. At sunset especially so.
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You lie.
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nah, she tells it how it is.
and i like the visitor centre. except for the crap shop.
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I quite liked the Pinnacles, too. The road in was shit, but that’s about the worst I’ve got.
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We enjoyed the trip – it is about the same distance as driving to Yallingup. What was really great was that you can drive around the whole thing without once getting out of your car. It’s a drive through natural wonder.
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California:
Cervantes:
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Another point is that you only encounter other tourists, not local posers and pretenders like you find hanging around the MR region.
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Speaking of drive through natural wonders, it would be hard to beat the bottle shop at the Hotel Como. Had a friend visiting from France. All of the first day he could barely hide his contempt and disdain as we drove around this city, until we went to the drive-through to get beers. You should have seen his face, laughing in amazement.
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Parisian, no doubt. They disdain everything that is not from that city – including France.
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I prefer the Pinnacles at Hilton.
I’m pretty sure I’ve sent them before. Oh, yes, the actual pinnacles, crap in that unique Western Australian way – a long way to go to be surprised at the hype.
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You have, as have many people. It has actualy been featured years ago.
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They deserve their own stop on the Fremantle trambus/dining carriage tour.
I see no need to take visitors any further than Hilton pinnacles.
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or to the greasy spoon at the top of the city Myers shop
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Sign is disappointing: as any fules kno, it should be: Please help us by refraining from climbing activity on the Pinnacles whilst you are currently in the area.
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Heh.
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Irrational Hatred #478?
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The only reason to go to the Pinnacles would be to do Billy Connolly there.
Amazingly, it is not available on youtube.
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have you done Wave Rock as well?
I think there may be an ongoing series here of ‘Pissweak Western Australian Geological Attractions’
I went out of my way once to see the Marble Bar. Very underwhelming. The only redeeming feature of the trip was a barmaid at the Ironclad Hotel who was filthy.
Then there’s that rock arch in Kalbarri. I thought it was going to be huge like that arch in Utah, but you get there and it’s the size of a patio door.
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I want to be able to personally cover wave rock. Like Pinnacles, it’s too far away for what it is. If both were in Scarborough, then you might call them good, but every k you have to drive is the inverse square of its not worstness. Or similar.
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can you work some rurotardness into tyhat equation?
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Wait, perhaps Wave Rock can be moved to Scarborough.
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Or at least used as the name for a Snake Pit revival.
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Utah:
Kalbarri:
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Yep, although I quite like Kalbarri. We don’t need
JesperTLA, however, to tell us that the Pinnacles are WA’s Tap Stonehenge. They can photograph well, but meh.LikeLike
Wave rock is reasonably impressive. Scaled against how far inside subsidy territory its a push though.
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Move it Araluen instead. Enough drive for mouths to water with anticipation, but not so far that you’d think “I drove 6 hours for this?”
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Araluen = the max range of buses-without-toilets-for-seniors
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6 hours is too far to drive to get a photo of yourself standing side-on with arms out and knees slightly bent.
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There acutally IS an official trail for Pissweak Western Australian Geological Attractions – it is called the “Granite Loop Trail.” http://www.westernaustralia.com/en/Things_to_See_and_Do/Forest_and_Flowers/WAWildflowers/Pages/Driving_Trails.aspx#granite_loop (even contains vibrant floral displays).
We went to Kalbarri instead and managed to be disappointed by both the rock arch AND the Pinnacles in the same trip.
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I’ve done bits of that trail
‘Marvel at the fascinating gnamma holes’. It’s a hole in the ground, and not a very big one, that fills up with stagnant rain water. Occasionally. Possibly the least fascinating thing I have ever seen. Definitely worth a coach trip:
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Does it include the pissweak Dog Rock at Albany?
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And the monadnocks are quite dull too.
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The water isnt stagnant when it first rains
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At one stage in my life I was driving Perth -> Sthn Cross return regularly & would break the trip by visiting all the ‘rock’s along the route. Amazing in their rockness but really just the only thing the rurotardians couldn’t plow under so they put signs on them.
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Sure, don’t ruin the pinnacles by climbing all over them, just erect a fucking sign instead…
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Pinnacles “loved to death.” A nation mourns.
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love the font – DEC passive aggressive
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(Been away awhile…been over to Tassie to get myself one of their stereotypically wonderfully preserved cars to replace the Darched Mazda, finding a stunning yellow Audi S3 over there, eating up their winding roads, shipping it to the mainland on the Spirit Of Tasmania, as well as scorching the Hume to Sydney via Canberra and back and scaling Mt Buller in Victoria for a ski, staying a few weeks in Melbourne then racing home to Perth via Great Ocean Road-Mt Gambier-Adelaide-Port Augusta-Iron Knob-Nullarbor-Kalgoorlie-Dullsville.)
Isn’t the State’s tourism board’s catchphrase “WA: Extraordinary”?
For once they didn’t lie. It is ordinary in extremis. Where mediocrity is not only a virtue, it’s a way of life. Which is a shame for all the latent attributes we have at our disposal, like generally good weather, exceptional beaches, plenty of room and loads of money swishing around.
But nah, we’re like the the metaphorical Toyota Camry drivers of the world, who could—gasp!—stretch to a Lexus IS or GS, but even with that Toyota family familiarity, most Sandgropers would still unthinkingly stump for yet another conservative cardigan Camry, or
Camry LiteCorolla for the missus.I hope Her Maj is bored shitless and vows never to visit again :) Even Tasmania, for all its inbreeding, subsidy handouts and isolation, can show West Aussies a trick or two hundred about how to attract tourists and treat them very well. Needless to say, I’ll be back yet again (second time I visited, as I also just happen to be enchanted by the place).
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BO’T is back, driving an expensive yellow beetle!
Things are looking up!
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Well, it was the same platform (A4/PQ34) that not only spawned the Audi A3/S3 pair (of which it was the first model on this platform in 1996), but also the MkI TT (which kinda looks like a shrunken New Beetle), the VW MkIV Golf, Bora/Jetta and New Beetle, Škoda Octavia and the SEAT Léon and Toledo.
So it can be argued that it is a glorified beetle, but the most potent one and with AWD to boot, which came into its own along the sinuous A10 route in Taswegia (there’s about five-and-a-half thousand of those bends on that road), eating up the rain-slicked hairpin bends and sweepers with rude disdain, which put a smile on the dial of this turnip :)
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Well, they had to do something to counter the huge popularity in the high (and therefore snowy and slippery) country in Europe of the Subaru AWD series.
No, Subaru did not invent the engineering, but they made it most accessible.
Pity about the lousy local service and high cost of spares, though.
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I always thought the pinnacles were big, like this
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No, evidently you were just standing very far away.
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Reminds me of Bunbury, Im came back yesterday by the way.
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pics?
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Pfft, just go to Balcatta. There’s some pinnacles in a less barren landscape (I mean shrubbery and not Greek columns).
I mean the pinnacle is the Balcatta SHS emblem, which they’ve changed to look more new-agey/cultish. At the time I wasn’t “ethnic” enough to enrol, try as I did by starting a fight at the Maco Club in Balga.
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Today is a perfect day to hit the Pinnacles. Take some pommy visitors, piss off up Wanneroot Road and get out of the rain and into the warmth. I put this in as a vote of why they’re not so totally crap. Also, Hangover Bay is near there, and the beach is a bit lovely. The stromatolites leave even visiting geologists a bit meh – the thrombolites in Lake Clifton are a much better bet, not least because there’s that emu pie place just a bit down the road from it. And a brewery? Winery? Just next to it. Usually busy tearing into emu pies, me…
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Now I’m a tad peckish, RR, as were Beth and crew. Some fine
WintoningBunburying here, including pole dancing galahs, all things fairy, and Dan’s dad toking on.LikeLike
I had a friend visit Perth from Germany. He was touring Australia, and came to Perth for just one night. The ONE single thing he asked me to do for him- take him to see the famous pinacles!
How the hell did he even find out about them? Why did he fly from the East coast, just to see that one attraction? I drove him all the way there and he seemed reasonably impressed, took some photos and 10 minutes later we drove all the way home again.
It still seems surreal today that it even happened.
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Couldn’t you read the signals? He wanted to be shot and dumped in the desert.
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Courtney, perhaphs your Nazi friend was trying to tell you something, and wanted to see the piss dar resistance pinnacle that is shaped like a huge crock, It was quite the biiggest one Ive seen, and thats saying something after that Somalian boat person exposed homself on Mullaloo horse beach.
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