Back in service , here's a few updates from the last 4 days .
Another adventure began today , after rearranging our cruise from Thursday to Friday , we packed , hitched and headed out to Cape Range NP .
Now , the rearrangement was due to the people we are meeting here , having a few problems on the trip over from Sydney . They have come the most direct route , through a lot of Australia’s outback . On the Great Central Road , there was a problem - one of the axles on their camper broke while they were coming through Carnegie Station in the east of WA . We received an email at 9pm last night informing us of the situation - they would be arriving a day later than planned , and a request to rearrange our cruise so we could all do it together . Fortunately for all concerned , it was easily remedied at the cruise shop in about 30 seconds !!
Back at the park , Lyn was doing a spot of cleaning before we headed off again , and was quite surprised I was back so quickly , and with a good result !!
So with the drama over , we emptied tanks and cruised out of town at a leisurely pace . We passed the Harold E Holt Naval Base , then the 13 tower Very Low Frequency Communication Station ( a radio network for submarines , the central tower is the 2nd highest man made structure in the Sthn Hemisphere ), before arriving at Vlamingh Head and Lighthouse Bay .
Seeing we had plenty of time , we stopped and went for a walk on Hunters Beach .
Walking down the access track , we came to the beach and the colour of the water was the first thing that hit us - what an amazing colour !!
Down on the beach we found many sea urchin shells washed up on the sand - too many to count !!
The sun was glittering on the ocean and waves and on the water running back down the sloping sand .
This beach is a turtle rookery , we have missed the laying of eggs & hatching out , that’s November to March . The beach is made up of a lot of shell grit , coral , and of course some sand . There are many different types of shells on the beach as well - here are just a few .
Back to the vehicles and off down the road again , we entered the Cape Range NP , and a few minutes later turned off the road and into our campground for the next 4 nights - Mesa Campground . We chatted to neighbours & set up , before going for a walk up the sand dunes about 150m away from us . The resulting view of the beach , reef and lagoon , stunning !!!
It’s a curious mix of a lot of sand , but mixed in are limestone outcrops , making for an interesting beachscape .
We found another interesting shell in the waves wash , ornately patterned !!
Further along the beach is a limestone outcrop / shelf , that is utilised by people to fish from . Chatting to our neighbours for a good hour or so , we broke away and had some lunch .
The view from our bedroom window is pretty awesome , just to get the envy happening , here’s the view !!!
A quiet hour slipped by before it turned into happy hour - all the campers get together for a chat and we played a version of some game called Clop - you have a round piece of pine about 200m long and you attempt to knock down other pieces with numbers from 1 to 12 . The first to 50 wins , if you miss 3 times you’re out , if you knock more than one down you get the value of how many you knock down ( 2 down is 2 points , 4 down 4 points etc ) , but if you only knock one down , you get the number that’s written on it ( 3 is 3 points , 8 is 8 points , 12 is 12 points etc ) The number blocks tend to get spread out fairly well over the course of the game . It’s an interesting way to spend your afternoon as the sun goes down .
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