Blogs from Cape Range National Park, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Well, I escaped from Perth like a bat outa hell - having felt like I was there for far too long! We drove and drove until we arrived at a nice free camp not to far from Kalbarri. It felt great to be on the road again! Kalbarri was lovely, we soaked up the sunshine and swam in the sea - the first time since South Australia. Kalbarri National Park was a fantastic sight after being in the city for such a long time. One of the little treasures there was ‘Nature’s Window’ - as the name suggests it is a window carved out of the rock, complete with a gorgeous view of the Murchison River. It was so nice to spread our wings again. From Kalbarri we kept heading North and stayed in another rest ... read more

Day 185 - Cape Range National Park Despite the late night I was awake by 6am, Darryl was not! He had been knocked sideways by ‘cheap plonk’ and so remained in bed for quite a while! I sat on the sand dunes watching the world go by on what was the stillest morning by far since we arrived here. I thought I saw a flipper in the distance, could it be dolphins? It was! A group of dolphins spent the next 30 minutes breaching right out of the water and what looked like tail walking, it was very entertaining. I didn’t have chance to go for the camera but I did manage a quick run near to camp to see if anybody was up, Lachie was so I dragged him down with me to watch! It ... read more

Day 183 - Cape Range National Park A quick birthday shout out is in order today, Happy Birthday Tirion Hallett - grand daughter of Wayne, Darryl's Brother! So does that make little Tirion our great neice?! We don't know, but we do hope you have a really lovely day! Oh my goodness it’s so awesome here, it really makes us feel blessed to be waking up to such fantastic scenery. I keep waking up really early here so head off again for a good walk. The morning sky looks really angry today though and I wonder if there’s a storm brewing. Bel is already off for a run and although I know she would love the company I will only slow her down which doesn’t seem fair so I let her do her own thing at ... read more

Day 181 - Cape Range National Park It was so funny when the alarm went off at midnight for the turtle watch walk, we both led in bed waiting until we could hear the zipper go on Bel and Nige’s camper trailer but we must have drifted back to sleep! I then heard what I thought was Bel’s voice say “Are you still going?” so I sprang out of bed quickly followed by Darryl, got dressed and headed out the door but there was nobody there! I must have been dreaming! It was quite windy so we thought we would check out the activity on the beach first then run back to get Belinda if we found anything. It was ace walking along the ocean in the moonlight, all we could hear were the waves crashing ... read more

Day 179 - Exmouth to Cape Range National Park It’s a very exciting day today, we’re heading up onto the cape in the hope we’ll find a camp spot near the ocean. Everyone has a few things they need to do before we leave this morning so we whizz around for a while before reconvening to go shopping! Unfortunately for the boys they sent myself, Belinda and Zali to do the combined shop! They should have known it wouldn’t go to plan and that there would be a couple of double ups despite us walking around together. The fatal mistake was the separate shopping trolleys! It was a pretty expensive spending spree for just four days camping but one thing is for sure, we weren’t going to starve! Darryl unpacked our boxes and the exclamations came ... read more