Greens Pool and Elephant Rocks

Red Mezz
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Greens Pool and Elephant Rocks

  • December 4, 2006
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Red Mezz from Inverness, Scotland
Greens Pool and Elephant Rocks

It’s quite likely that if you've never been to Western Australia, then you've never heard of Greens Pool or the Elephant Rocks. And if you have been, then maybe you still haven't heard of them, but I'm sure you will have seen them.
Greens Pool, but especially the Elephant Rocks show up again and again on post cards and photos of Western Australia. And rightly so. They are an amazing sight, and the whole area is well worth a trip down to the south west coast for. (Although as I've specified in this review, luckily there are many other very worth while things to do down there, because it is a rather long drive just to get a look at some rocks.)

We arrived on a very wet and over cast morning, and still it was one of the highlights of our Western Australia experience, so if you happen to catch it on a warm and sunny day then it will certainly be breathtaking. It's just about 15 minutes out of Denmark town off of the south coast highway on to the William Bay Road. A short drive down the trail and you arrive at a parking area, (nicely arranged as most in Western Australia are with a very clean and neat bathrooms and some tables). Because of the rain there were few other people out that morning, and so we had the area pretty much to ourselves. If it is a sunny day when you go then I highly recommend that you go at sunrise or sunset... if the post cards are anything to go by the scene is magnificent (and given what the place looks like in the rain, and what a good Ozzie sunset can be, I have no reason to doubt this). But regardless this, it is an amazing place. With the rain the waves were kicked up and still made for some pretty stunning photos. The pool itself was a bit too cold for swimming in on the day, but what a fantastic place it would have been! It truly is green, a shallow little pool just off the beach that glows turquoise green in the low light. And over a little path a few minutes hike away are the stunning, and aptly named Elephant Rocks, sitting strangely just off the beach. Another thing that needs to be seen to be appreciated, but it's not just their texture or shape that lends them the name. They are huge. All in all it's a very cool place and certainly one of the highlights of the south west tour.

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