Everything is travelling well this end.
Left Jurien Bay after being forced to pay $20 for an O/N camp at Sandy Cape, we were told in town at the Info Centre where the free camp was so thats where we went, apparently wrong info as the Camp ranger from further down the point came up and demanded payment, a few lessons in public relations wouldn't hurt him. What the hell it was a quiet place and the huge sad hills are pure white, they are actually pure lie stone weathered from the cap stone.
They go for over 100klm along the beach front, further down the developers knock the tops off, cap it with sand and there you are - $175000 for a 18 perch house block.
Stayed at Moore River and into Yanchep Nat Park for the day, absolutely amazing place there, first declared a preservation area in 1898, bloke by the name of McNess built his house there and quite a few out buildings, used by the Air Force during WW2 as a Hospital/recovery Centre, Radar and Radio location after which the buildings were then returned to National Parks, we explored the limestone caves which are actually situated inside the water catchment for Perth. Over 500 caves in there, they used to have flowing water and springs but the water table has dropped far enough now for them to disappear so the NP people pump a little bit up and have a pretend pool and spring in there.
Decided to stay overnight there, excellent camp ground and close to the Yanchep Tavern situated within the grounds so I took Kath out to dinner. Just hd to check each other out as the kangaroo ticks were out in force, big buggers too. The bird life there is varied and undisturbed by people, great to see. The various wild flowers along the road make for interesting driving.
Back up to Ledge Point Friday night after further exploring the NP and met up with friends from Innisfail who lives over here now, met their little bloke for the first time - he is 7 months old now. Justin took us up along the beaches and sand dunes etc to get some photos, the dunes are open to the public and believe me they are well utilised, able to hire sand boards, quad bikes, dune buggies, kite surf and wind surfers at various places along the kilometres of beaches and dunes. It was great to so many families enjoying themselves out there.
All in all we had a great weekend catching up with them.
Down to Perth today and had the new gear box checked and the oil changed, all good. Lunch in town, visit to the Info Centre and out to Jarradale Free camp tonight and off to Penguin Island tomorrow to see the fur seals and penguins.
The wind hasn't let up and the nights are cool enough for a good sleep.
Stay safe and happy
Cheers
Bob n K
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