Off again , another 80klm down the road to Bremer Bay , we discovered it last year and decided it was worth a revisit . Not a lot has changed as you would expect , but a micro brewery has opened up .
Next day we reacquainted ourselves with town & the beach etc - how is this beach ? , nice and protected , the rest of Bremer Bay Beach sweeps off in the distance .
Out to the lookout over the bay and Back Beach . It was a bit breezy and town is pretty quiet after the school holidays - not for long probably .
Out near the golf course we discovered this flowering gum . It is an interesting looking creature , the fingers beside the flower we weren't sure whether they were seed pods or what ??? They are actually covers for the flower , as it gets ready to flower the cover / finger comes loose and drops of revealing the yellows stalks of the flower .
And this is what it looks like after flowering .
Next day we went out to a favourite place - Native Dog Beach . This next photo is some of the tea tree forest beside the beach .
There are some nice orange covered rocks beside the beach .
We headed down the other end of the beach , so as to get some exercise - the beach was hard to walk on , the sand was soft wherever you were on it , even down at the waters edge . The other end of the beach has another rocky headland , with many different rock types - some sharp and others rounded .
The bird went for a fly as well - how can you not like shots like this !!
This is the overhead view of this headland , vertical lines of the rock stand out .
Across the bay is Little Boat Harbour Beach , and it's pretty protected from the easterly winds that have been a bit relentless . Back Beach on the other side near Bremer Bay would be horrendous , and not enjoyable - complete the opposite here though .
Another day of easterly winds , but we went out to Blossom Beach to go for a walk along the beach again . This is near the access track , and shows a lot of different colours in the sand .
The water is crystal clear , you can see through the waves as they are breaking .
This is looking over toward Little Boat Harbour Beach . Not much else done today , bit overcast & windy again !
Yesterday we weren't sure what we'd get up to today , so lingered around the van a bit longer . Then inspiration struck , lets pack lunch & head off , it was a nice day - still windy though . So off we head , down to Bremer Bay across the inlet - which is full hard packed sand - out onto another track that went for about 8 kms , some corrugations & sand , but not too bad . Finding our track we turned off right and started down towards our destination . It was only about 10-12 kms away - won't be long. Well the track started to narrow , corrugations started to take on the look of mountain ranges , but we kept plodding along slowly . The track varied in condition from hard packed corrugated gravel to clay sections that would be very boggy and impassible in wet weather , then sand as well . Here's some of the corrugations .
The track got narrower and narrower and we were dreading meeting someone coming the other way.
We wound our way around trees & through scrub , finding another turnoff - the track got narrower again!! Side mirrors were pulled in to stop them hitting the vegetation , and to give me some manoeuvring space . We were in 1st gear twisting and turning our way through the scrub , again not wishing to meet anyone , as there would be a lot of reversing and fiddling around to get past . This next photo is our gps log - the thin black line that's twisting and turning shows how winding the track was .
But it all paid off when we walked the last 100m to the beach .
This is Peppermint Beach - across the bay from Bremer Bay , but it took us 2 hours to get there - all 20klms of it !!! And can you believe that we had this beach all to ourselves , not another car or person in sight . There were tracks from cars that had been there on previous days however , but we had this 2 kilometre stretch of beach to ourselves , so we sat and had lunch ! What a spectacular place !!
It was windy , but I had to get some aerial shots of this magnificent place - Bremer Bay township is in the middle top of the photo .
The little part of the track you can see in the next photo is where we came in , hell of a drive in and the ute has the scratches to show for it - it has certainly got us to some fantastic places !!
Behind the sand dunes and where we had parked are these areas that look like concrete - they are actually limestone caps about 400mm thick , so there is some interesting geology here as well .
There was one section that had been dug out by previous vehicles , that was a bit of a worry for when we were coming back out . Low range was selected and the diff locks engaged and we just cruised straight through the holes and up & out the other side like it was never there - love this ute !!
We made our way back out and decided that we'd go the longer way to town because the road should be better - mistake no1 . It started off nice & smooth , but within 500m it had gone corrugated , and we're talking large corrugations , some being 150-200mm high , then some were also space out further that normal so that you couldn't skim over the top of them at speed , it meant you hit everyone of the bloody things ! So then we just had to crawl over them . They came & went and there was other wheel tracks and soft spots , but we finally arrived back to bitumen again . Along this track we found some of our favourites from last year Royal Hakea .
Well that's it what a good day , you're now all caught up , we've washed the ute & van today & chilled out . Here's a map link :- https://drive.google.com/open?id=1wNtv86twfoXmGQGJQJq2S0UDv-MUiopF&usp=sharing
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