Pinnacles – Namburg National Park

The Pinnacles are limestone formations within Nambung National Park, near the town of Cervantes, Western Australia.

I had woken up at 1:30 AM and did not know what to do with myself. So jumped into the car (as you do) and drove north for a couple of hours to the amazing Pinnacles desert. Got to see the limestone formations in the pitch dark just under starlight as well as an amazing sunrise over the desert. Flew my drone around and got some panoramic shots of the desert, but on second thought the photography is better shooting bottom up from the ground to the sky rather than top down.

Attracting around 250,000 visitors every year, the Pinnacles desert covers an area of approximately 190 hectares, is around 60 meters above sea level, and contains thousands of limestone Pinnacles, some up to 5 meters high. The variation in colours (due mainly to the variation in soil types), and the stark relief of the Pinnacles against a backdrop of constantly shifting sand dunes creates an eerie landscape of ever changing moods often viewed at it’s best at dawn or sunset when the shadows create remarkable patterns and shapes that ripple over the sands.