Alan & Lyn's Huge Adventure: 18/6/20 To the Cape and monkey of our back

Moving onward from Kalbarri , we found ourselves at Nerren Nerren Rest Area for a late lunch , and after walking around checking out potential sites , we decided to stay the night . Found a nice spot beside the fence and away from the main bitumen area .

It was a very cool night , 6.5 degrees when we got up - the diesel heater got fired up pretty quickly !!

After warming up , we left and headed to Denham for the next week or so . This is the view from the top level of the park , we don't have these views but we do have water views .

The weather was looking good , so we headed up to Francois Peron NP , we had some unfinished business from 5 years ago . There's about 40 kms of sand track to drive along to get to Cape Peron at the top of the park - we made it about 25 kms and were stopped by a deep sandy section , so we didn't get to the Cape - so there was some unfinished business to take care of . The track was as we expected , today though we dropped the tyre pressures to 18psi and continued on . Driving this track is like driving on rails you go where the tyre tracks go . There were several cars going our direction , and only one or two going the other way .

There's a large clay pan that goes for about 1klm and then there's the sandy section that stopped us last time . We stopped and checked tyre pressures again , before proceeding into the sandy section - we breezed straight through it . This is the clay pan .

Not much further there's a turnoff for Cattle Well , we took that and found lots' more sand to drive through , leading out onto a beach which we drove straight out on and down to the left hand end . Views were pretty good , orange sand right down to the white beach sand and green & blue ocean .

Here's some aerial shots , stunning colours .

The next track we took was in to South Gregories - a small campground . The beach had been damaged by the storm a few weeks ago and most of the sand had been washed away , leaving lots of limestone rock - very jagged and not user friendly .

Next stop , also not far up the road was Gregories - another campground . The red layer of dirt is quite stunning mixed in with the blue sky , sand & water .

Next stop up the road was Bottle Bay , another campground and beach access , which we took . About 1.5 kms up the beach we reached the end of the beach and found another bay & beach bordered by a 10m high red cliff , what a sight it was . The storm has washed a bit of it away and large rocks littered the beach closest to us , so we parked and went for a walk before having lunch . Just WOW .

After lunch we started off again , there were still 6 klms to get to the Cape . More sand and tracks to get to Skipjack Point where there's a lighthouse and a couple of lookouts . We stopped in the carpark and walked down the walkway to this view - how good is that !!

Down the walkway to the lookout , the scenery is outstanding , and we stopped at the lower lookout and just watched the ocean below - never a dull moment - this school of fish swam on past .

Then there were a couple of large green turtles - here's one of them .

We found 4 Eagle Rays swimming by .

Then we had this 4m Tiger Shark making a couple of appearances . What a spectacular region for spotting marine wildlife - it's just there saying look at me , look at me !!