Day 89

30 April 2013

Coral Bay would have to be our favourite place in WA this far. Incredible place, so relaxing, would come back here for a holiday in a heartbeat and the snorkelling and water temperature as well as clarity is fantastic!

Anyway we couldn't stay forever, today we got a call from the job Joel had applied for and he got it! So we have to be in Broome by Monday! We really wanted to go to Cape Range National Park in Exmouth so we had to keep moving north! Exmouth is approx 150km from Coral Bay and the national park is another 40km around the tip and back down the other side. We were determined to head straight to the NP as we had been told that people line up here waiting to get a camp spot and the earlier you get there the better. Now you can book 3 out of the 7 camp sites here but we hadn't been that organised and we decided to just wing it and hope for the best. All along the road to Exmouth is these big termite mounds.

There is a national park entrance where you have to stop and pay your money to enter the park (unless you have a park pass, like us and then it's free!) and organise camping here too. When we arrived at 10.30 there was a couple of spots free, so we asked which is best for snorkelling and we were told Lakeside so we headed there. At each campground is a camp host which you report to on arrival and pay your money too and they tell you which site is yours. This spot only has 7 sites so nice and quiet (apart from in the day when every man and his dog comes here to snorkel!) and we just happened to be lucky enough to score the site right next to the water, water views, cleanest drop toilet i have ever seen, even lots of shade (which is rare over here) and all for $14 a night!

Set up, lunch and check out the snorkelling here. Saw huge amounts of fish out here, different ones to Coral Bay which was good. At one stage there would have been like 50 x 40cm+ fish swimming around coral in a school, it was amazing! Saw huge sting ray which had a big scary barb thing on the end of its tail so swam around that! Then you get all the little fish that swim in schools of hundreds and you almost swim through them, looks like glitter in the water. While there was great things to see, the current here is also a lot stronger and you have to swim out a lot further than you did at Coral Bay.

Did a quick drive around at dusk tonight and people weren't lying when they say this is when animals come out to play! My god it was scary there was roos everywhere!

Since we got rid of the boat we have been able to access things a lot easier including a little gas burner which we decided to cook dinner on instead of Weber. We have noticed too that the gas burns up pretty quick using the burners inside the van so this may be a good alternative.

Beautiful sunsets here too over the water, can't complain at all....livin the dream.

Carly & Joel

 

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