We had a walk around the town in the morning and had a look at Streeters jetty which is one off the oldest in the town and was used for pearling. We came back for leftovers for lunch then had a swim at cable beach it was nice warm water! We then took some sunset photos from the beach.

We left to get to Broome! We had one or two stops on the way. We arrived and had a drive around town before going to dinner to Mum’s friends house from college – Shelly. We had a lovely currie for dinner.

This is the sun rise from our campsite at Cape Keraudren.
Tess

Today it was only a short drive from Port Hedland to Cape Keraudren. Our caravan site at Cape Keraudren was a lovely site, right on the beach! When we got to Cape Keraudren we went for a walk along the beach. It was a very nice walk, and we saw lots of shells!

There were lots and lots of these ‘crab balls’!

There were lots of rocks with shells stuck to them, this one was standing up, so we think it may have been a star picket or something!

A cone shaped shell.

We saw lots and lots of big shells.

We had some dim sims cooked on the barbecue for lunch, and then we went for another walk along the beach the other way!

Tess collected lots of salt from on the rocks!

We were able to have a nice camp fire to cook our dinner on, on the beach!

Tara

We hit the road planning to stay at Millstream National Park. We drove for five hours on a dirt road only to find out that the spot we were planning to stay was closed. We could either go back 52 kilometres (1 hours drive on that road) or keep going to Port Hedland. We had to keep going because we couldn’t turn around with the caravan. It was a long drive when we could of gone a quicker way but it was a beautiful drive so it was worth it. We arrived at our camp site, set up then had a drive around town then had early dinner.

After breakfast, we packed our lunch and went on a walk through Dales Gorge. We journeyed down a steep descent into the bottom of the gorge and walked one way along the bottom from one end to the other, along the way we stopped at three swimming holes. The first swimming whole was called Circular Pool. It was rather icy, however did not deter three of us (guess who didn’t go in!?). At Circular Pool there was a small waterfall, the water from that water fall was quite warm, especially compared to the water in the pool. We saw our friend Amelia there again, she seems to pop up everywhere! She walking with us through the rest of the gorge, it was good to see her again! The second swimming hole was Fortescue Falls, where we went yesterday. However, it was only Tess and I who ventured into this pool. There were a few fish that we saw in Fortescue Falls. The third and final swimming hole was Fern Pool. We all went and had a swim at Fern Pool, because the sun was shining on the pool, making it a slightly warmer pool. We walked back along the top of the Gorge. It was a very pleasant walk. I really enjoyed swimming in all of the swimming holes! We had pesto pasta for dinner. It was very nice.

Tess walking through the gorge.
The little water fall at Circular Pool.
It’s a bit hard to see, but there was quite a thin pillar of rocks holding up a very big wall of rocks!
We were rather intrigued by this tree growing out of rock!
Tess and I at Fortescue Falls.
Fortescue Falls from above.
Tara

We had a slow getaway today as it was quite a short drive to Karijini National Park in the Pilbara. We arrived at our campsite just after lunch time, while we were setting up we saw a small brown lizard it was very well camouflaged.

We sat around for a while then went on a 45 minute walk to a swimming hole called Fortescue Falls.

There we saw what looked like a baby snake or a very large worm. We found out later that it was a legless lizard.

We had a lovely swim in the pool before heading back for dinner. We had a nice relaxing day.

Tess

We left Cape Range rather early this morning. We even beat our record pack up time!

The beautiful sunrise…

This is the lighthouse at Cape Range.

It was a very big day of driving today, about eight hours of driving! It was quite a nice drive through the Pilbara though, the scenery was quite different from what it has been previously.

Driving through the Pilbara!

We got to Tom Price in the afternoon, and then went down to the Rio Tinto buffet dinner. Rio Tinto is the mining company here. The food was very nice, and there was lots of it! The bar there claims to be the cheapest bar in WA because it is subsidised by Rio Tinto!

There were lots of lovely big hills surrounding our caravan site.

Tara

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

We had a fun day of snorkelling and a walk. We first went on a lovely walk along Yardie creek.

It went for 750 metres and it took us about 45 minutes. We saw Amelia along the way. We had a snorkel at Oyster Stack beach, there was no sand just rocks.

We had a great time there and at our next snorkelling spot which had less coral but had nice soft sand and big fish that swim around you’re feet as soon as you get in.

Overall we had a fun and exiting day!

Tess