Blogs from Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 13

We arrived at Pt Hedland around 11.30am very low on fuel and Warwick filled the car while Marg went to woollies. Rang peter and sue nethery who kindly offered for us to stay at their place for a few days, so after getting the address we arrived there just after lunch. We were made extremely welcome which both Marg and Warwick thought was lovely as Warwick and Peter had worked together and out of the kindness of their hearts they opened up there home for us. We had a wonderful weekend with them and their 2 beautiful daughters Katrina and Tara. Bailey and Chloe have made 2 new friends here as Bailey played ball with Katrina and Tara fell in love with Chloe. So the whole after noon we chatted, that night Peter cooked a ... read more

The girls were sad to see us go not really mainly Bailey and Chloe so on the road again. We stopped at Karratha for lunch and decided to continue on to Robe River (462). It was about 3pm when we got there and it was hot so we decided to go in the river for a bath and cooling down. Today we travelled 372 kms and we are past the ½ mark in distance. Not much to see and still pretty warm (29). Had slack dinner bacon and eggs. ... read more

Left Karratha and went into Dampier. It was a nice place. Went into Onslow for a night. On the way out we had a look at the salt pools we had seen yesterday. The sun evaporates the water and leaves the salt behind. We managed to grab a bit of the salt in a block. On the way to Exmouth we saw Variety Club cars driving past. There were lots and lots of them. Each car had a different theme and one had a motorbike on the roof. It as sponsored by a motorbike shop. Stopped at Pebble Beach, just before Exmouth. It is called Pebble Beach because it doesn’t have sand; it has little pebbles all over the beach. One day we went to Jansz Beach, we had a swim. There were a lot of ... read more

Well if Broome was the place that I saw my first whale in the flesh .... then Exmouth is the place that I saw the MOST whales in the flesh! Yes ... I am in Exmouth. I arrived yesterday afternoon, and after setting up the Thunderbox in the Cape Exmouth Caravan Park (which is very nice I must say), I headed out to the lighthouse for what I expected to be a good vantage point to watch the sunset. I was pleasantly surprised to find that there were bucket loads of humpback whales passing by - alot of them close to shore. So I ended up spending several hours watching, enjoying and taking pics - including some that I have added on here. This morning I woke to find Exmouth overrun by Variety Club Bash vehicles ... read more

So, since we've been stranded up here it was time to get our serious heads on and find work. Most places we went into were very reluctant to giving backpackers jobs as they usually leave within a week so it didn't look good at first. But, as of now (Monday) we are both employed, yey! We're working for the Pot Shot Hotel Resort, Robs is working in the bottle shop (the off licence) and I'm working in Graces Tavern serving food and drinks, and also doing some housekeeping in the resort itself. It's not perfect but it brings in the money. So, in the mean time there won't be too many blogs until we can move on as all I'd have to report is work, work and more work. With perhaps a bit of snorkeling, cycling ... read more