In the morning, we packed up the van, ready to leave Coral Bay. Just before we left we saw someone called Amelia. When we were at Monkey Mia, she was camped next to us, and she came to our caravan for dinner one night. Amelia is riding her bike around Australia! It was nice to see her again! We didn’t rush to leave Coral Bay, we left about mid-morning. The drive to Cape Range was not too long. On the way, we stopped in Exmouth for a little look around, there were a few shops and things there, but being WA Foundation day, most of them weren’t open. There was a large marina on the outskirts if Exmouth, with lots of fancy houses. There is also a big prawn on the way into Exmouth. The prawn is 7 metres tall, and weighs 2000kg. It is made of fibre glass and steel. It was donated by the Kailis family to the town in 2013. In Perth we had fish and chips at the Kailis Restaurant. Every year between December and March, the prawn is put into storage to keep it safe, because that is cyclone season.

We stayed in the Cape Range National Park which is about an hour away from Exmouth. (That’s why we haven’t been able to do the blog for a few days. We’ve been out of range in the range!) When we got there, there were only 3 camp sites left in the whole park! Ten minutes later, they were all full, we just made it! We stayed at a camp in Cape Range called North Karrujong. When we arrived at the actual camp, we had to go to our hosts to check in. At all the camp spots in Cape Range they have volunteer camp hosts who sort of look after you while you’re there. Our hosts were really nice, they even gave us some free fresh spanish mackeral that they had caught that morning! After setting up the van, we walked down to the beach. It was a very nice beach, but not that good for swimming, it was really shallow with lots of sea weed. But we still had lots of fun!

We had the lovely fresh fish for dinner! It was delicious!

Tara