Cave Point

The point is an ideal place to spot whales and seabirds and discover a diversity of plants in the rock gardens that clothe these exposed headlands. The jagged and tilted rocks at Cave Point are a distinctive feature of headlands and peaks throughout the park. They were once layers of silt and sand deposited on an ancient the sea floor that were subsequently transformed and uplifted by movements of the Earth’s crust. Siltstone was turned into the colourful schist at Cave Point and sandstone to the much harder crystalline quartzite that has created the park’s peaks. From Cave Point, there is a clear view of the magnificent East Mount Barren where the jagged outline of tilted rock ridges resembles the spine of a giant sleeping dragon. Below the peak on its seaward slope is a distinctive broad platform carved by the action of pounding waves when the sea level was higher than it is today. If you absorb this view and then look west you’ll discover that headlands all along the Fitzgerald coast are similar wave-cut platforms created at the same time. Music: DRIVE - Nicolai Heidlas