2012, October 11 - Exploring Denmark and surrounds

Exploring Green Pool; Elephant Rocks; Madfish Bay; Duckets Mill Cottage; Monkey Rock; Wilson Head; Ratcliffe Bay; West Cape Howe National Park & Shelley Beach

Wild flowers overlooking Elephant Rocks, Denmark

 

Trip Meter Reading Start –  8014

Trip Meter Reading Finish –  8186 (172 kms)

Fill up Denmark
$1.50 / litre; 61.63 litres; $93.01

Accommodation
Day 2 - Free camp at Cosy Corner (East) is 38 km east of Denmark and 30 km west of Albany – take the tourist drive south from Denmark.  Beautiful shady campsites behind the vegetated dunes of Torbay Bay.  The camp has a dump point and clean toilets – you could get water from Cosy Corner (West) where they have beach showers (not potable or suitable for drinking)

Mum, Dad, Luca (from Rome) and Margot (from Paris)

Comments – Luke
Today we did a drive down to green pool and Ellephant rocks.  And had a swim the water was very clear.  After that we did a walk along the headland and saw heaps of pretty flowers we also saw a Brown snake.  After that we had lunch on an head land.  After that we went to a cheese factory and bought some sorbet and gelato.  We also drove to Monkey rock which is a rock on a very steep hill in the bush over looking the sea.  We saw heaps of orchids up there after that we drove to shelly beach where there were tones of pip and cockle shells.  At camp we made a fire and sat around with an Italian man named Luca and a girl named Margot.


Green Pool Snorkelling, Denmark

Comment – Mum and Dad
After moving our van to the lower section of the free camp (closer to the toilets and beach area), we head back west to explore Denmark.  First point was the information centre, and as we were down to a miniscule budget at this point in the trip, asked for information on walks to do in the area.

From recommendations, we headed to the coast to visit Green Pool and Elephant Rocks.  Well weren’t we gobsmacked when we got there....just check out the photos.  The sand here is as white as my....ceilings back home and the water as clear and the most spectacular green turquoise colour you can imagine; add this to the most beautiful blossums and colours of natural aussie wildflowers and giant granite rock formations, you just might think you have died and gone to heaven....It just takes your breath away.     Come 11 oclock the beach was filled with young families taking advantage of the hot weather snorkelling and swimming in what is a shark free and very safe huge rock pool....awesome!!!

After being in awe of this magic scenery for the last couple of hours, we finished Denmark with a climb up to Monkey Rock – a long steep climb, but the view over the farmlands out to the ocean was just magic!....

Mum, me and my Dad at Green Pool/Elephant Rocks, Denmark

After exploring Demark which was just a fabulous day including the weather (we were truly blessed) we called into Shelley Beach which was near our free camp......again this was spectacular and only one person camping at the national park area, which by the way does not allow caravans due to the steepness and width of the road to get to it.  However, as it is just around the corner (from Cosy Corner) a great place to explore....