Day 80

21 April 2013

Today we were thinking we might try and get a spot closer to Kalbarri as it was such a nice town. We had Murchison Station in mind which is just outside of Kalbarri and is a huge property where you can camp but also go 4wd driving all round the property. The road in is dirt but well maintained and a lovely lady showed us around. Unfortunately I think the camp spots could have been better organised...there was a group of 6 families which had about 20 kids between them and they were spread out right across the front of the river. She then showed us a spot directly behind them that we would need to park if we stayed there. I am talking 30 cm from this persons swag to the back door of our caravan. We decided to keep going and try a new place. For tents and big groups this is the perfect spot, for caravans not so much.

We were then stuck on where to go, we decided to just keep heading north to shark bay. While I couldn't wait to get there I also didn't really want to get there in the school holidays, however we had to be somewhere in the school holidays so off we went.

Travel took up most of the day, lots of nothingness between Kalbarri and shark bay! This state is huge and there is just so much free space! We did have a close call with an emu today but luckily they must of heard the big dmax and ran back into the bush, not onto the road! We were heading to Hamelin where there was a station we were going to pull up for the night and head into shark bay tomorrow.

Drove into station and there was goats running across the road everywhere so we made a note to let the owners know their goats may have escaped! Pretty lake on the drive in and the office area is just a short 1km drive on dirt road. Caretakers were lovely and helped us with brochures and advice on shark bay and monkey Mia. Great amenities, did some laundry, washing dried in no time with a combo of the west coast wind and heat!

Was telling caretakers there might be goats loose on property and she explained that they are all wild goats, they come and go as they please but if they are on your property when sale time comes around you can herd them up and sell them! Pretty funny I think!

Joel cooked a beautiful pizza for dinner, bought it in to the van on the hot tray for the oven and chucked it straight on top of the chopping board. Sizzle sizzle sizzle, I said babe what are you doing? Joel says its just the cheese sizzling, some must if fell onto the chopping board! I say no Joel I am pretty sure you have just burnt the ass out of the chopping board! Hahaha it's plastic, Joel thought it was made of that silicone stuff that you can out in the oven! Hilarious! Result....

Lazy afternoon, roothy DVD before bed and we were out.

Carly & Joel

 

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