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Published: November 1st 2012
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As we have travelled south crossing the Tropic of Capricorn and the 26
th parallel things have suddenly become much cooler, especially at night. The doona has made an appearance again for the first time in many, many weeks. Clouds have begun to appear in the sky and flies seem to abound in the millions. In fact, if you didn’t keep your mouth closed in Kalbarri you could feast on slow moving tiny flies. This was a lesson learnt very quickly.
Kalbarri: never heard of it but wish we had known more about it before we got there as we probably would have chosen to stay a couple of days instead of just over-night. It was a beautiful seaside town surrounded by stunning National parks. The Murchison River winds its way through amazing gorges in the National Park finally meeting the sea in a very protected and safe bay in the town.
It was easy to imagine this place a buzz with families over the summer period. There was so much to see and do.
After purchasing some much needed milk, we walked along the esplanade enjoying the beauty of the location. This was obviously a town with a
focus on tourism. Restaurants and fast food joints were located conveniently near the caravan park and the abundance of holiday rental properties.
Tempted by a sign advertising lobsters for sale, we dropped in and made a purchase. With a bit of inventive methodology and creativity with ingredients a yummy lobster Thermidor was served from the Baby Q. Together with a delicious sav blanc we had a meal to die for.
Visiting the inland gorges was a must do activity. Needing to vacate the caravan park by 10am we decided on an early rise and visit to the park. We did not regret our decision as you will see from the photos. Unfortunately we missed seeing 2 others but they can wait until our next visit.
We made a rather hasty but late exit from the caravan park. It was a good thing there were no departure time Nazis on duty as we have heard there are in some other parks. We would have been in trouble for sure!
We opted to take the scenic ocean road to our next destination. With gusty, sometimes head winds and a very uphill down dale road we chewed lots of
fuel.
Not far out of Kalbarri we came across a car with a blown tyre. The young couple and their two year old daughter were almost at their wits end as they could not find the Allen-key to undo the nuts. They had borrowed the car from one of their parents and couldn’t phone them to find out the whereabouts of the tool as they were out of mobile range. They had practically taken the car apart, all of their luggage and bits and pieces were lying on the verge. They were so grateful that we stopped as many others hadn’t and also that we had a tool that could help them.
Barely 5 kilometres on we came across a caravan that had parted company with the car. Those people were also in a bit of a diabolical state but they had a number of people there helping so we didn’t stop.
The windy drive over we stopped in the Dongurra Caravan Park, our last stop before Perth.
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Angela Reimann
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Another Gregory
Are there ANY Port Joan's in the world? Greg has a port, a river AND a national park - not bad at all ... PS cray looks totally yummy, well done, baby q