Tuesday, 20 August 2013

9 August 2013 – Cape Keraudren


Up early and left Eighty Mile Beach, farewelling Mark & Sharon and Mick and Susan and the three boys.  We weren’t too sure where we would end up but as we were in a nice area Josh decided that we wouldn’t travel too far.  We ended up only driving for an hour or two and took the turn off opposite Pardoo Roadhouse, back down another dusty dirt road towards the coast.  Upon arriving at this spot, known as Cape Keraudren we were approached by the caretaker to collect our fees and point us towards the best spots for setting up the van.  We first went to look at the camp area beside a small inlet, and although the water was a magical turquoise colour and there were plenty of large shells to examine, we decided that we could later be attacked by mosquitoes or sand flies – so onwards we drove.  We headed towards the sandy white beach in the distance where we could see many other travellers with their vans.  Once we reached the sand we were most definitely decided that this would be where to set up camp for the night.  It was high tide when we arrived so the caravans were all only about 100 metres from the water.  There seemed to be many people out the front of their vans at this time staring out to sea, aha – whales were frolicking out there – and there were plenty of them!  I joined in the sea-gazing for quite a while before deciding that I really should set up the van.  But, once done, I had nothing more to do except sit back out the front in the sun and enjoy the view.  It was just brilliant!  Josh went for a bit of a wander around to the next small bay with the girls while I soaked up the sun.  When they returned, the girls decided it would be fun to “dig thru to China” so they gave it a good go.  They ended up using a small plastic cup each and amused themselves for hours.  They were at it for quite a while before I talked Sami into coming for a walk out across the rocks now that the tides were going out.  We found lots of interesting sea creatures to touch and examine such as hermit crabs, small sand crabs and shells all of which she of course had to bring back to the caravan.  The sun was going down pretty quickly by this stage so we all raced to the car and drove around to the cliff edge to view yet another pretty sunset – just making it in time.  It was quite pretty as there was a big flat rock that had emerged from the water due to low tide and it was sitting between us and the disappearing sun.  We noticed a few kangaroos hopping about at this time too – not too hard to miss considering there weren’t many trees or bushes for them to hide behind.  After our quick showers tonight, we realised that there were plenty of sand flies around this camping spot too.  Both Josh and Samantha’s backs were nearly covered in red itchy dots, plenty of Savlon was about the only thing that would soothe them for the night… but Josh’s scratching was to keep me awake for a while before finally snoozing after our great day.






















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