Onto the next town today, being
Guilderton. We had booked in at
Guilderton Caravan Park which was right on the Moore River. It was a good location but an expensive place
to stay. We had a fantastic site right
next to the gate into the river and beach area.
It was a decent day weatherwise, warm which is better than overcast; and
a light breeze which is better than the wind we’ve been experiencing. After a quick lunch we headed to the river
and the kids were nagging for someone to go in with them. I couldn’t stand the nagging any longer so I
was the dummy that went in with them. It
was fairly shallow, only waist deep when we reached half way but the kids
wanted to keep going until we reached the other side – so we kept on. It got to the point where I couldn’t stand
anymore and we had to swim the rest of the way, not being able to stand again
until right before where we got out of the water. Fortunately, I was able to convince them to
walk back to Josh. When back, they had a
big of fun playing in the sand while Josh and I chilled out. It got quite cold so we went home and left
the kids there while Josh and I went for a walk around town. We walked all the way to the lighthouse which
was off the beaten track. It was up a
sandy hill and had a fence enclosure around it so we couldn’t get a good look
at it anyway.
The following day we went
exploring further south. We stopped at
Two Rocks and went for a quick walk on the opposite side to the marina. There was a car alarm siren going off the
whole time and apparently it was making Sami feeling sick so we didn’t stay
long. Further south was a lookout over
what I think was called Yanchep Lagoon.
There were plenty of people out for a swim at this tiny beach and the
car park was quite full thanks to the road works going on. We found somewhere to park the car and walked
down to the beach – there were plenty of people everywhere (probably because
they hadn’t had a whole lot of hot weather).
We grabbed some ice-creams and then went for a drive. This area is fairly new and there are a lot
of new homes around and many more new ones still in the process of being built. We left here and found a national park
nearby, called Yanchep National Park.
There was a lovely green grassy area where we stopped to have our picnic
lunch before heading off to see yet another cave. This was called Crystal Cave (and it’s
nowhere near Atherton) and the first white man to find this limestone cave was
Henry White in 1903. He used to do some
tours for his friends through this cave, and in doing so, they would quite
often cut off the point of some of the stalactites as a souvenir which you can
see above you as you walk in. The other thing that you notice is the very long
root from a tuart tree which has grown deep into the cave in search of water,
reason being is that an underground stream used to be very prominent throughout
this cave but it has now mostly dried up and there is very little water now in
it. The tour lasted about 45 minutes and
once finished we went for a further walk – this time along the Koala
Boardwalk. The koalas were a bit hard to
spot as there are not many of them but also because, as expected, they were all
fast asleep in the forks of the trees.
We were in time to listen to a short presentation about koalas which was
good to hear all over again. Funny thing
is that whilst listening to the talk, Sami happened to drop a thong through the
boardwalk and onto the ground below – lucky there weren’t any ferocious koalas
about and we were able to get it back. Our
last site for today was the Yanchep Inn, which was built in the 1900s and has
the character of an old English Tudor lodge.
It is stunning as it is made from local limestone and looks to have been
a very sophisticated place in its day.
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