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The Pinnacles are limestone formations located within Nambung National Park 230 kilometres north of Perth, near the town of Cervantes.

The best season to visit the Pinnacles is during spring from August to October, when the days are mild and the wildflowers are in bloom.

More than 250,000 visitors a year visit this natural feature which remained almost unknown until the 1960s when it was added to Nambung National Park. A visitor precinct and interpretive centre were added during 2008.

The best time of year to visit the area is from August to October, when the days are mild and the wildflowers begin to bloom. The limestone formations are best viewed during the early morning or in the late afternoon due to the light at those times showing the colours and the extended shadows cast by the formations.

The majority of animals in the park are nocturnal, although kangaroos and emus can be observed during the daytime, they are more frequently observed during the moring or in the early evening.

The raw limestone of which the upright stones consist, originally came from seashells during a priod that was rich in marine life. The shells were broken down into lime rich sands which were blown inland to form highly mobile dunes. Although the pinnacles have the distinct appearance of being the remains of a petrified forest in which the standing trees became buried beneath sand dunes and then calcified and turned to stone, the detailed mechanism by which the pinnacles were formed is still unclear.

 

The Pinnacles. Photograph © Torben Rübke. Courtesy of Panoramio

Pinnacles, Nambung National Park

Video © limjumeng. Courtesy of YouTube.