We were able to sit outside last night without any wind for a change. Steve found a few new birds at the park who,he was happy so share his seat with. After finally having dinner last night after the long wait for fish and chips it was off to bed in the still quiet night. That was until around 1am when the wind once again picked up big time! The tent was flapping around and making lots of noise. Enough to keep us awake. Then at 6:30 it was time for me to get up to go looking for whale sharks. I got down to the dive centre and signed in. There was to be six of us on the tour. Into the mini bus we all climbed with our diving gear stowed away in the ... read more

The good news was that there was no rain overnight, the bad news it was pretty windy. We were all up fairly early and Steve and Debbie took off around 8:15 then 45 minutes later it was our turn to head off. The drive was fairly uneventful and once again we were looking to see what animals we could see as we drove along and Sandy also got back to her Kindle to continue reading her book. Our first stop was Minilya Roadhouse for a refuel for the car as well as a coffee and pie for myself and a toasted sandwich for Sandy. Back on the road again and the next stop would be Coral Bay. Potentially a pretty spot but looks more like an oversized caravan park. We didn't stay for too long before ... read more

19 June 2012 Overnight was quite warm with only a sheet needed for sleeping, also there was no dew on the tent :). The sound of the surf was very loud and being only 50m or so from the beach over the dune you can even feel the vibration through the ground as the waves crash onto the beach. We had a visit from a cat last night, we're not sure if it's a feral or a farm cat, either way it looked like it was pretty hungry. But not tame enough to come within a couple of meters. After breakfast we took a walk along the beach, unfortunately this is a no fishing beach, you cannot even take shells from the beach, of which there are many, including some clam shells twice the size of ... read more

Another picture postcard day in Denham. Blue cloudless skies, turquise water and so quiet. Overnight is still getting quite cool, or if you were to ask Sandy cold. With the clear mornings comes moisture on the tent which has a habit of dripping on the outside floor of the tent, which after a whilestarts sounding like a drum. Maybe this is the Denham water torture rather than the Chinese water torture ;). This morning saw the departure of Debbie and Steve who have headed for Carnarvon to seek professionalsad advice from a qualified autelectrician. Steve has a booking for 8:00 tomorrow morning. Hopefully they will get to the bottom of their flat caravan batteries and maybe even work out where Toyota have hidden the fog light relays. Today has been a very cruisy day for Sandy ... read more

Friday 15th June. A full on day with an early start thanks to Sandy reading the time incorrectly. Looking at her phone this morning there was a slight discrepancy between 6:45 and 5:45. Yes, we were up at 5:45, but at least there was no queue at the toilet block. Back to the tent for breakfast which finished up sitting on the tailgate of the Rangie eating our cereal and having a cuppa. With Debbie still not feeling well it was Steve, Sandy and myself off to Monkey Mia to see the dolphins. The usual 5 dolphins turned up along with a friend for feeding. It turns out that only one family of dolphins can be hand fed and only if the dolphin is a female and over 4 years old. It nice to see them ... read more