Located 245 km north of Perth, Cervantes and the Nambung National Park are well worth a visit. Cervantes is a quiet fishing village and is one of Western Australia's newest towns. In 1962 the government removed 505 hectares from the northwest corner of the Nambung National Park to establish a town.

In the Pinnacles Desert, right in the heart of Nambung National Park, thousands of huge limestone pillars rise out of a stark landscape of yellow sand. In places they reach up to three and a half metres tall. Some are jagged, ... (more)