Day 111

As we didn't get any fish last time last night we decided to get to the beach early well leave the park by 9.30am. Well we did but it was blowing on shore and it was hopeless, but the water did seem warmer. So decided to go to Bundegi beach on the other side of the cape, so it should have been off shore, but of course it wasn't, so no fish for tea. Went and looked at the Dunes Surfers Beach the waves weren't huge but just right for learning on and there were a few there.

Managed to stop at the 'phone box' and send of a text for Jacks birthday.

Back to the bus and the sky was cloudy and we even had 20 spots of rain. As we are leaving tomorrow we packed up the few things we had outside.

Today is the first day that we haven't seen a whale.

Day 110

Seeing we are leaving here on Sunday I decided that I had best wash the bedding and towels plus anything else that was dirty.

We heard that there is a beached whale on Bundegi Beach and there had been two tiger sharks snacking on it when a big white pointer came along and scared them away and snaked its self and its being suppressed by the shire up here as not to put the fear of god into the tourists...so they say. Any way I heard from a different source that you had to go up the beach in a 4X4 to see it. Even though we had Trevor's 4X4 but we didn't bother and just went into town for happy hour and a pizza and home by 8pm. Of a night you can see the fires on the gas rigs right on the horizon

Day 109

Today Nola and Trevor too us down to the Gardie Beach, well you catch Gardie there now I am not sure but I think they are what we call gar fish. I don't know but we didn't catch any so I still don't know. I think we were a bit late in the day and the tide was going out. But was the day perfect, no breeze the water was calm even though it seemed a bit cool to me. So of course we didn't have the camera only my phone, I did take some pics but I will have to see if I can transfer them to the computer. Well its one of Gerald fishing, now that's a rarity. He seemed to really like it.

There is an ant hill on the side of the road near the Yardie Caravan Park the they, the holiday people call the Phone Box because you can get a single on your mobile phone.

Day 108

Not a lot today. But that's what you do on holidays isn't it. Just sitting and reading. Still windy so Nola came down and said that she was heading into town to get a few things did I want to go, sure thing. I could take my computer and download any emails and update the blog which I did. Nola had a lot of trouble getting on and in the end gave up so I didn't like to take too long so I just updated the blog without any pics they take so long to load. So we had coffee and got a few things from the supermarket and then back to camp

Day 107

Today we packed some rolls and juice and headed down to the National Park for the day with Nola and Trevor. We went into Turquoise Bay where you go to The Drift and snorkel down the bay with the current, its suppose to be the best way, but it was blowing and no one was doing it so I didn't either. So we went into Turquoise Bay proper where it was a little bit calmer, not much though. I went in for a snorkel but I scared myself and couldn't get my breath and it was cold in the water, Nola and Trevor had a dip and them we moved on to another spot for lunch but unfortunately it was windy there too but we had our lunch. We went right down to Yardie Creek which is the last "free" camp on the list. I am glad we stayed where we were at the Lighthouse a lot of the camps we looked at had no grass or any trees for protection from the wind, but one was right on the beach and did have a great view of the water when you could see through the dust and sand blowing about.

Day 106

Into the big smoke today to get supplies ie grog, food and water also to do a dump of out used water. Exmouth have got very nice facilities and do cater for the tourist.

Gerald tells me that we have to more camp tomorrow morning so we thought we would go down to the National Park and check it out. The Tassie family didn't leave here till about 10.30.

Nola and Trevor came with us and because Gerald had his seniors card it only cost $5.00 for the vehicle to get into the park. The ranger did say that you have to be at the gate by 7am to be assured of a spot. Its not like free camping in Tassie where you just pick a spot. Each area only has a limited number of sites 6 to 10 and limits in size of rig and each site has a camp host whoi is responsible for the site and toilets and who is where etc.

We went to the Mesa site that the ranger said would suit us and one of the families that we met at Munro Station were there I had a chat with them and they were moving on to Coral Bay tomorrow.

In the end we decided to stay where we were at the Lighthouse

Day 105

Not a lot today. Nola and Trevor asked us to go swimming again but Gerald wasn't feeling the best and I didn't want to crowed the others.

So just a day of sitting out in the sun reading, there is a slight breeze. In the end I had to put the awning out to get out of the sun a bit.

Met some Tasmanians from Turners Beach and they are going to go into the National Park tomorrow and camp. Its evidently not as hard as we have been led to believe. Having to line up at 5am in the morning to get in. It may have been a few weeks ago but things seem to have quietened down.