Pick up a picnic lunch in Kalbarri town and begin the two and a half hours’ drive north to enter Shark Bay World Heritage Area (Gathaagudu Gutharraguda). Just 30 minutes into the Shark Bay World Heritage Drive, you’ll reach your first stop at Hamelin Pool Stromatolites. Here, you can get a glimpse of life on Earth over 3,500 million years ago as you gaze in awe at the stromatolites – the largest and oldest living fossils on the planet. Another hour along Denham-Hamelin Road brings you to Shell Beach – one of the few places in the world where you’ll see a beach made entirely of billions of tiny shells, creating a dramatic coastal landscape. On the last leg to Denham and Monkey Mia, take a short detour to Eagle Bluff for spectacular ocean vistas and birds-eye views of the marine life below, or Peron Homestead for some insights into pastoral life on a working station in the early 1900s. Stay in Denham or Monkey Mia.