After a day that was less than exciting weather wise and a windy night , we wake to another blue sky day - there were some clouds though . After some thought , we decided to have a look at Little Lagoon & it’s inlet from the sea - maybe even have a paddle in the kayak .
Driving around we found the wind was picking up again , so that wiped out the kayaking - it was a bit cool as well - the wind chill wouldn’t be pleasant .
There’s a track that runs beside the inlet , so we drove down to the viewing deck and checked it out . The water is crystal clear and was flowing into the lagoon , there are only a small amount of mangroves here - maybe too hot and /or barren for them , they used to line the lagoon 4000 years ago , now they only line some parts of the inlet - progress eh !!
Driving out a little further there is a parking area , or for those more enthused , you can drive out onto the beach - we parked and went for a walk instead !! After reaching the beach, we were quite happy to have walked - the sand was very soft . The local SES were having a training day down on the beach , getting vehicles bogged and extracting them - we weren’t going to join them !!
The main beach area ( not a lot of beach - about 4m wide ) was looking good for a walk , there were no waves , due to sand banks further out , and made for a nice walk . Here are 2 photos taken at the same spot - just the height they were taken at changed .
There has been evidence of emus around everywhere we have walked - just as I started to think that , 2 appeared on the track we were walking out on .
After that we drove out and found 4 more - mother & 3 kids .
Around to Little Lagoon and of for another walk around the northern side . The lagoon is an old Birrida - a depression that has now filled with water and has an inlet from the sea . It has a lot of fish and other sea life , many shellfish as well .
From the lagoon , we made our way back toward town , taking another track down toward the beach we had been walking on - it took us toward a ridge - more like a headland . Walking up the ridge we got views over Shark Bay , over to Useless Loop Saltworks and Dirk Hartog Island . The white mounds are the saltworks loading dock where they load the ships . We found a covered picnic table - shame we didn’t know about that prior to coming , we would have brought lunch with us !!
Sightseeing done , we headed down to get some fuel , before heading home for a late lunch . Then took advantage of some free Wifi to update the phones and computer .
We may be out of service tomorrow as we are moving further north , so we’ll see what happens .
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