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Published: October 3rd 2007
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Thursday 27 September 2007
Happy Birthday to Amy and Meeshell!!!!
Well how time is flying by, we are currently at Kalbarri which is approximately 9 hours North of Perth and it’s freezing!!!!!!!!! Well not really but it’s a lot cooler than what we are used to coming from Roebourne (22 degrees I think it is today brghhh)
Since our last blog, we’ve done heaps. We have been to Cape Range National Park which is near Exmouth. We stayed for two nights at Osprey Camp ground and met up with Nev and Bron for some fresh local prawns for Bron’s birthday. We finally had a shower (a proper one using our car and the shower tent which Matt and Nev kindly assembled for me - who insisted on using the tent!) and after four days it was soooo nice, hot water and all. The kids seemed to enjoy their bath as well.
We did some fantastic snorkeling at Turquoise Bay. You begin at Drift Bay and you literally drift along down to Turquoise Bay car park, it’s unbelievable. We got to see so many fish and coral. The water is a beautiful colour as you can tell from
our photos. We’ve certainly been seeing some fantastic scenery along our travels and we have thoroughly been enjoying ourselves this part of the trip.
Onto 14 Mile Beach…………..literally paradise. We camped right on the beach, on soft, white sand and looked out to the Indian Ocean. Words and photos really don’t do the place justice. At only $5 per person (not including children), you can’t go wrong!!! We fished, sun baked, walked along the beach, played beach cricket and generally relaxed and had a great two days. Apart from the wind that is, WA certainly is windy, and in the old Jayco you certainly feel it rocking!!
Next we stayed at Red Bluff, the Surfing Mecca of WA. Red Bluff is just another of the amazing places we have been lucky enough to discover, after driving 80kms of dirt road, past the Quobba Blow Holes we arrived at the Homestead. Red Bluff offers varying types of accommodation including humpies; chalets, camping etc and we only paid $10 per person so we’ve been doing it cheap. We even met a guy from Canberra (Kambah) and caught up with our old neighbours from Roebourne!! It was here that Bron got
to see her first glimpse of real life Hump Back Whales, very cool indeed. We just returned from fishing and I looked out into the ocean and there was a pod of whales- truly amazing. I sat there with a vodka, watching the whales splash about and the sun go down - very hard to take I know. Matt also saw a shark while he was fishing, not sure what kind it was but it was big (probably a Tiger Shark).
We then spent one lonely, windy night at Eagle Bluff (another free camp) on the top of a cliff and believe us it was windy and cold. Great view though. I nearly forgot to mention that we went to Monkey Mia the next morning and Lily got to feed the dolphins - a bit of a high light that we were more excited about than her I think!!
Which brings us back to Kalbarri. We have caught up with our mates Britt and Greg (think back to Pt Samson and annexe party) and we are off to Coronation Beach with them tomorrow for a few days. Time to head south and earn some money again soon.
Not sure of our plans for Christmas but I’m thinking Margaret River wineries, prawns, you get the idea.
We thought we should include some examples of some of the more bizarre sign posts we have seen on our travels through North Western Australia:
• R.F.D.S (Royal Flying Doctor Service) Landing Strip (this is the highway)
• Caution, straying animals for the next 480kms
• Bike track, beware of dingoes
For the last 12 days our trusty van and car have done us well. We haven’t had power since we left Roebourne and we have been fully self sufficient (only needed a jump start at 14 Mile Beach when one of the kids turned the fridge/cooler on in the car and we didn’t know for 2 days!!!) So that means we also haven’t showered again for 5 days this time!!! I know I can’t believe it either - we have been swimming a lot though but Lily and I nearly began to have dread locks - took me a good 20 minutes to try and get the knots out!!
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