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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