We left Warroora today (via a shockingly rough road!!!) on route to Coral Bay, this was our second visit but it looked like it was going to be a gorgeous day! Bree, Gary, Tori and Ella joined us in Coral Bay which was great, wow it looked special! We put on our snorkelling gear and headed for the water. We had loads of fun snorkelling and managed to get a few shots but unfortunately it wasn't that clear! Fish were cool, Coral was not all that colourful but quite unusual rose shape type of coral and it was fun all the same! Coral Bay has a lovely bakery which we indulged in for lunch and a shop that allowed us to expand on our ever growing tackle collection! :-) We said our goodbyes to the Daytrippers again.... It has been fantastic to hang out with them!
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| Coral Bay |
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| Coral Bay |
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| Coral Bay |
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| Coral Bay |
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| Ella at Coral Bay |
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| Tori and Bree at Coral Bay |
Our next stop was Bullara Station... A bit of a quirky
spot! First things first, after 10 days of water rationing Geoff and I indulged
in long hot showers!! This shower was an out door shower that was heated by the
"Donkey" a wood heated system.... Aaaahhhh fantastic!!
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| Outdoor Shower at Bullara Station |
We decided to take the sunset walk up to the red sand
dunes... This was special! When we got back they'd lit the camp fires so we got
our spuds organised and chucked them in, yum!
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| Red Sand Dunes - Bullara Station |
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| Sunset - Bullara Station |
We again cooked our dinner on the fire and chatted to other travellers!!
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| Sunset - Bullara Station |
Next morning we got up earlish and commenced our journey
to Exmouth and Cape Range, we decided to do this as a day trip, it was school
holidays so we probably wouldn’t get into a van park or national park camp plus
they cost a fortune! Cape Range had been
hit by a cyclone in April and we'd heard that there were many camp grounds
destroyed and road wash outs that still hadn’t been repaired! We were
interested in snorkelling unfortunately the low tide meant we couldn’t snorkel
at Oyster Stacks but we were able to snorkel at Turquoise Bay! We actually
struggled to get a car park there were so many people there... The beach was
absolutely stunning but it seemed funny that most people were on the sand
rather than snorkelling in the water! We'd heard about the famous Drift Snorkel
and we were keen to try it.... We had to work hard to start with against the
tide to get where we wanted to commence our drift. This was actually amazing,
the current was quite strong so we just had to float over the coral and fish, a
bit difficult if we wanted to look at something for a while but quite a
different experience! Again the coral wasn’t that vibrant and the water was a
little murkey but the fish were great and we had a great time!
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| Turquoise Bay - Cape Range NP |
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| Turquoise Bay - Cape Range NP |
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| Turquoise Bay - Cape Range NP |
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| Turquoise Bay - Cape Range NP |
Our drive through Cape Range certainly showed the cyclone
damage but there were some awesome spots and some amazing wildlife along the
road side! We finished off the day by having a fish off of the Learmonth Jetty
unfortunately no "keepers" then a dusk drive back to Bullara.... We
were centimetres away from colliding with a kangaroo!
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| Cape Range NP |
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| Cape Range NP |
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| Cape Range NP |
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| Cape Range NP |
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| Cape Range NP |
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