Yesterday I recapped my day-long tour with Australian Pinnacles, but I left off the best part: our actual visit to the Pinnacles!

This is the sole reason I signed up for the tour. A year ago I wrote about how this part of the world (Perth, Rottnest Island, and the Pinnacles) is on my bucket list. So it’s thrilling to see these impressive limestone figures in person after years of ogling their photos.

Our guide points out the path around the Pinnacles.

I love walking among them. While there is a loosely defined path, visitors are permitted to wander and get up close with these formations. Some are flat and bumpy, others are tall and skinny. Some are suggestively phalic. All are fun to photograph.

There’s a viewing platform mid-way through the path; you can see hundreds of more formations off in the distance.

These are my favorite:

Some of these formations look deceptively small, but most are actually over six feet in height. You can see their scale in relation to the man on the left in the photo below.

This one has the face of a Pac-Man:

I don’t know who the Currans are (a family? a tour company?) but I dig their sand graffiti.

After years of anticipating a visit, it’s hard not to have expectations — and the Pinnacles definitely lived up to them. I’m riding on a high as we drive away.

Thanks to Australian Pinnacles for providing a media discount on this day tour. Opinions are my own.