The Pinnacles Desert In Perth Western Australia

The Pinnacles turned out to be my favourite part of my trip to Perth, Western Australia.

I went to the Pinnacles on my first morning there. Travelling solo without a driving license, I took the tour that includes a lobster shack, the Pinnacles, and sandboarding; with tour mates who came from all over the world, from Germany to South Korea.

The Pinnacles

The Pinnacles, set in a golden sanded desert, is nothing like I have seen before, not even when we were in Dubai. It’s a form of stone sculpture, which brought both awe and eerie feeling. But not bad eerie, like in the Fremantle Prison. There is no definitive fact as to why these Pinnacles were formed, though there are many theories surrounding it. My favourite is the aborigines version of it; the Pinnacles is considered a devil’s ground and that young men who visited the place would fall into sinking sand and disappear. And the eeriest part of the cultural story; Those pinnacles? They are the fingers of the sinking men!

To top it all off, the weather on that day was pretty wacky, with both rain and sun kept changing every hour. It was eerie alright. But I wasn’t creeped out by it if anything I found the whole thing fascinating. It’s all gold and warm as far as eyesight can go and with a dash of mysteriousness, including the fact that it’s deemed as the lost city made it almost magical. So much so that I bought a Pinnacles fridge magnet to bring my favourite piece of Perth culture back to Melbourne.

The only thing missing was emus spotting, which I had been looking forward to. Oh, never mind, it will be an excuse for me to come back again. Maybe during the sunset when they said it gets more frightening.

Ps. I found out there was a 90s Bollywood movie shot in the Pinnacles called Yeh Jaan Le Le Re.

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