Perth - The Koalas in the Yanchep National Park (Australia)

As beautiful as the last few days have been… Exmouth was unfortunately our last stop on our journey through Western Australia. Now it was time for us again: back to Perth! And here we wanted to visit the Yanchep National Park, where you can find a lot of koalas.

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1300 kilometres from Exmouth to Perth

1,300 long kilometers were in front of us… The sometimes endless stretch of the N W Coastal Hightway & Brand Highway is really realistically unspectacular.

You’re happy if you spot a horde of wild parrots on the side of the road for a change 🙂

Highway No 1

Parrots on the roadside

Our Geraldton Hotel

We split the 1,300 kilometre route from Exmouth to Perth. On the first day we drove about 850 km from Exmouth to Geraldton and spent a night here at the Best Western Hospitality Inn. On the second day it was again about 450 km to the airport in Perth.

The Best Western Hospitality Inn is a bit motel-like, so you can park right outside your room door. In the middle of the roundel there is a small pool with loungers. The room was nice and spacious (with sofa and dining table). There is a fridge/minibar as well as facilities to make free tea/coffee. The bathroom was also good. The shower is a rain shower – here you could perhaps brush a little more, but otherwise everything was well equipped (hair dryer, shampoo, soap). The room is very quiet. You don’t hear any noises at night. Only in the morning could the housekeeping staff be a little quieter and not shout at halfway through the grounds… The wifi is free and fast. In the morning there is a free breakfast with toast, cereals, juices, cheese, sausage, fruit, yoghurt and a pancake station (which was unfortunately broken with us). Since it was free, it was ok. But we wouldn’t spend AUD 16 for this breakfast (that’s how much an external guest would have to pay).

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Our room at the Best Western Hospitality Inn Geraldton

The Leaning Tree on the Brand Highway

On the Brand Highway between Geraldton and Greenough you pass the Leaning Tree. The trees in this region are bent very strongly by strong southerly winds and are partly formally lying on the ground. That looks funny 🙂

The endless streets on the west coast

The Leaning Tree at Geraldton

The koalas in Yanchep National Park

About 50 kilometres north of Perth we happened to see Yanchep National Park. We noticed a large advertising poster on the street advertising koalas. Somehow we missed it on the outward journey. Since we still had enough time until our departure to Bali and the park is almost right on the road, we didn’t want to miss it. Luckily we were able to use our Holiday Pass here as well, because we didn’t have much cash anymore.

The park is known for its caves, native vegetation and koala colony. Various hikes and walks of different lengths are possible in the park. A lake for rowing and various streams are part of this small national park. The main attraction of the national park, however, is a 240 m long boardwalk through a small forest full of eucalyptus trees. And it didn’t take long for us to discover the first koalas in the trees. Some have slept deep and firm, others have enjoyed their eucalyptus leaves. And some of them threw themselves into a pose for us and grinned sugar-sweet into the camera. What a great conclusion to our visit to Australia 🙂

The entrance to Yanchep National Park

The way to the koalas

Boardwalk through the park

Koala in Yanchep National Park

A sleeping koala

Koala in Yanchep National Park

Eating koala in Yanchep National Park

Koala in Yanchep National Park

Koalas in Yanchep National Park

Eating koala in Yanchep National Park

Koala in Yanchep National Park

Running koala

Arrival in Perth

After visiting the Yanchep National Park we made a short detour to the Lakeside Joondalup Shopping Mall and then left our car at Europar at the airport in Perth just in time before our flight.

In total, we drove 3,500 kilometers from Perth to Exmouth and back in the 12 days, spending AUD 429 (approx. 280 €) on gasoline. Arriving at the airport, it felt a bit like the holiday was over now. But no, we’re just heading for the next goal. For a week we will stay in a resort between Komodo and Flores… dive, relax and just enjoy the time 🙂

Lakeside Joondalup Shopping Mall

Return of our car at Europcar

Our flight from Perth to Bali

Alle Reiseberichte aus Westaustralien

Australien hatten wir während unserer Weltreise im Jahr 2015 zum ersten Mal bereist. Hier waren wir vor allem an der Ostküste (Sydney, Brisbane, Airlie Beach und Cairns), im Süden (Adelaide, Great Ocean Road und Melbourne) und im Inneren des Landes (Ayers Rock). Australien hat uns damals so gut gefallen, dass wir hier auf jeden Fall noch viel mehr sehen wollten. Und was uns noch komplett gefehlt hatte, war die Westküste. Hier haben wir uns eine tolle Selbstfahrer-Route für knapp 2 Wochen zusammengestellt, um einige der Highlights des Bundesstaates Western Australia kennenzulernen.