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Published: November 4th 2009
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Day 187 - Cape Range National Park to Coral Bay
This is it people, we are leaving Cape Range today. We’ve spent a glorious 9 days here and it’s been so much fun. There is not a great deal of motivation to pack up and go but we know we need to move on and anyway, things aren’t so bad because most of us are only going down the road to Coral Bay!
The Reeves family of Simone, Mark, Zoe, Kenny and Beth plus the Elliott family of Nige, Bel, Lachie and Zali and both of us are all heading for the same campground in Coral Bay. It’s a great group dynamic and we seem to have settled into life by the ocean waves very well!
We’re all up early enough to go for one last snorkel and choose Oyster Stacks because the tide is high enough for us to slink over the top of the coral today. We’re again delighted with the marine life we see here and the shout goes up from Mark that he’s found something interesting to look at. Unfortunately I was closest to him and didn’t have a clue what these creatures were,
but I knew a lady who would! Bel swam across and wondered if they were cuttlefish - they were and we had four of them swimming around us. They change colour as they go too which is just incredible to watch. We were so pleased that we’d seen more than just their back bone in a budgie cage, these creatures are stunning and move beautifully in the water.
It never takes us long to pack the caravan away, everything pretty much has it’s own little spot nowadays so there was plenty of time for Darryl to have his hair cut by Rani before we left. She clippered him down to a number 2 and for a time he had a little Mohawk at the back! Bless!
On the drive out of the National Park into Exmouth I’d intended to get the blogs up to date but there seemed to be a problem with the Telstra connection and it took hours to sort it out. I was hot, it was hot, the laptop was hot - urrrgggghhhh! Dar decided to go shopping!
Turned out that there really was a problem with the Telstra side of things and just
before we were due to leave Exmouth it started working again so we stopped a while longer to pay the car rego on line and answer some emails. We’re still waiting to hear what we can do about our flight tickets but we hope that will keep til we arrive in Perth!
There’s a great second hand book store here so we stocked up with a few before we left, just in case we find time for a bit of reading on a beach somewhere! From the list written out for us by Bel and Nige we managed to find two so at least we know we have a couple of decent ones to keep us occupied.
The drive from Exmouth to Coral Bay is long and as beautiful as the scenery might be considered it is a whole lot of nothing! It’s only 189kms but it does seem to go on forever and by the time we pulled up at the campsite we were very pleased the journey was over for the day. The Reeves family are already here and there are a couple of spots still vacant near to them so the happy Cape Range crew
are back together for a couple more nights!
Bel cooked up a great dinner, she’s a great cook and we always have a healthy meal when she’s involved! The evening that followed was one of laughter and chat and then we got a floor show that none of us expected. The toilet block is in easy eye shot of our camp, the lights are on and its dark outside which makes them even more illuminated. Bel had gone for a shower and whilst she was drying off a young couple came in having decided that ‘tonight’s the night’! Quite stunned to hear what was happening in the next cubicle to her, Bel got even more of a shock when she heard instructions being given from the male participant, it was time for Bel to leave!! Rather than choosing a cubicle tucked subtly at the back of the block, this young couple had decided to put on their very public show in the cubicle opposite the open door to the block! Talk about brassy and they weren’t even put off by our shouts of ‘Now you see him, now you don’t’ etc etc etc!
Yet another night that ended
with Darryl wanting to squirt spider spray at something!!!
Night night
Dar and Sar
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Tony
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Close to the Bone
Jesus shag that haircut looks close to the Bone ! Even Hula Hips Hibbo would be proud of the skinhead