Day 150

26 June 2013

Rained a little last night which made the tent experience that much more enjoyable! Haha it actually wasn't too bad, nice to do something a bit different! We were a little worried about the road to Cape Leveque at least half of it is good old dirt road but thank god it was still open so we set off.

The road is a little strange in that it starts off as bitumen, then it goes to dirt for 120+ kms and then back to bitumen for the last 80 or so km. Makes you wonder why they don't bitumen the whole thing but of course that wouldn't be as fun! This is the same road we had to travel to get to the pearl farm a few weeks ago and I think I described it then as sort of like a skate bowl, high sides and big dip in the middle, the water only seems to pool in certain parts and most of the time you can cross to the other side of the road to avoid it but sometimes we had to slip and slide in the mud as it was unavoidable!

Back on bitumen for the last leg of the trip and there are alot of little communities you can stop in on the way to Cape Leveque - Beagle Bay, Middle Lagoon, Lombadina etc you can visit these communities and most of them are on the water and have some arts and crafts or historical buildings to see. We just continued to Cape Leveque though as we wanted to get there and set up! Kooljaman is a resort owned by the local aboriginal people (you may have seen it advertised on tv) and it has been on my list of things to see since the very beginning! The resort is located 5km off the main highway on a dirt track which was a little wet from the rains but we made it through. Once you arrive the little dirt road opens up to a nice big newly built office and cafe which is set on top of a cliff overlooking the ocean! The view is amazing!

We pull into the car park, hop out and notice that either everyone else knows about some secret car wash up here or we hit those mud puddles a little too hard! Our car is covered in mud and everyone else's look like it just rolled off the car yard! Oops! Haha

Campsite is in a great spot overlooking the ocean and with toilets and wood barbecue in close proximity.

Set up, had some lunch and then went for a little wander down to the western beach which is good for fishing and watching the sunset but the current is too strong for swimming. Stunning...

Then drove over to the eastern beach which you can swim and fish at and drive on the beach here too. Joel had a bit of a fish but didn't get anything.

The resort also offers a lot of different guided tours with local people which take you to places that you may not be able to normally access on your own. So we checked out these and decided to do a spear making tour with Bundy on Friday, it's a half day tour and teaches you how to make a spear and hopefully catch something with it!

Tomorrow we are going to have a look around at some other communities and see what we can find.

Carly & Joel

 

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