Day 114 – Onslow – sunny 31

Anna in her Element

The ocean sounds brilliant here, especially at high when it hits the shells.

Rrrrraaaaa

We went and checked out the local fishing holes and scaled the beaches.

Paiges first fish a Yellowfin Whiting

At Four Mile Creek Paige caught her first fish, a yellow fin whiting and a good sized one at that. She was stoked and couldn’t wait to tell her Grandpa, we spent the rest of the avro out there.

Levi tried his luck also

Day 113 – Horse Creek to Onslow – sunny 30

Not knowing what to expect Onslow isn’t too bad a town.

It has everything you need if you want to stay awhile, once we had settled in and mingled most of the people here are from Perth escaping the cold for a few months.

The beaches are clean and full of shells, the sand isn’t white though mainly because of the mangroves.

Day 112 – Karijin National Park to Horse Creek Bridge – sunny 28

Levi High and Dry

We can do this!

From Dales camp ground we drove to do the walks on the other side of the Park, Kermit Pools were certainly the best feature of the park and made you feel like you didn’t completely waste your time making the detour to Karijini.

Water like mirrors

Always smiling

Kermit's Pool

You need to hold an accredited abseiler licence to go past here.

Awesome fun a great walk/climb/swim.

The Three Stooges

The walk was fun, climbing ladders and scaling walls, at the last section we had to leave Levi behind and take it in turns to go to the end. You can see why people are always being rescued from falling on this walk.

Roadside cafe!

Heading out to Tom Price we hit a road block, there was oil spilt on the road and it would be a 40 minute wait. No problems we just got out our kitchen and had smoko, and yes at this stop on the middle of the road we caught up with the family again Aaron, Michelle and the kids. Paige thought it was great. Not only that, another family who we camped with at Ormanston Gorge, back in April, was at Horse Creek that night, so we got to catch up with them over a few drinks.

Day 110 – Albert Tognolini RA to Karijini National Park – Dales Camp Ground – sunny 26 with freezing cold wind

The views from Albert Tognolini rest area

Karijini.Ummm.. not what we excepted. We have had so much better camp grounds on the roadside and for free. The camp is well set out with allocated large sites but the surroundings are unfortunate, let’s hope the walks make up for it.

A Steep climb

Great stepping stones for the kids

We ventured to the Circular Pool which was only 800 metres, it certainly wasn’t boring for the kids, climbing up and over boulders.

Circular Pool

Levi in training to be a fireman

Circular Pool

The pool was freezing and gorgeous, I was in heaven just collecting the mounds of Ochre, that is why the walk took up most of the afternoon.

Cutting up reeds for the Kinda Kids

We soon realized though after getting back to camp that we could have done all the walks in one hit today. There are 3 or 4 walks but most of them are 15mins to an hour long, how were we going to lose any weight at this pace.

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The kids mmmm....

Day 111 – Karijini National Park – Cloudy 22

It is sooo cold here we have to go back North, how I am going to handle Melbourne. Glenn and I refused to believe that this was the end of our summer we weren’t going to let go, he wore his shorts and T-Shirt. I on the other hand caved and had to put on a hoody, the kids, well they were dressed for the snow.

Natures pergola

Time to eat!

Today we did the Rim, Gorge, Fortescue Falls and Fern Pool, it was a beautiful walk but we had been on better and it definitely hasn’t shown us to be one of the jewels of Western Australia like they say.

Paige and Levi checking the water temp

Just sitting around

Fern pool

I cut up some reeds for the kids at kinda, so they could try the Aboriginal paint brushes and hopefully give them some Ochre.

Anna doing a deal!!

With Ochre that is!

In the arvo Paige helped to crush the Ochre I found on the walk.

Day 109 – Cape Keraudren to Albert Tognolini Rest Area – sunny 26

We keep bumping into the same family we camped next to in Northern Territory, it is amazing who you meet on your travels. Sure most people are headed in the same direction, but to travel to different places and then meet weeks later is freaky.

Sunset from our camp

Our rest area had the best views and if this was anything to go by Karijini was going to be speci, and the sunset was amazing it lasted for over half an hour.

Day 108 – Cape Keraudren – sunny 32

Lucky the tides out!

After pancake brekky we went back to the beach and walked a lot further up trying to see if there were any turtles, no luck but Glenn was wrapped that there were heaps more shells to collect.NOT!!!

Levi's still looking for the truck

Glenn is getting worried about my collection…..I don’t know why.

Sunset on our camp

Finally Glenn caught his first 5 Bream but could only keep 1, Paige got to gut her first fish, she loved twisting and turning her hands inside.

The ordinary sunsets from our camp

Day 107 – Cape Keraudren – sunny 31

Reef walking

After brekky we were back out at the beach, Glenn doesn't know whats worse my botanic collection or the shells, even though he helps. In the arvo Glenn went for a fish off the rocks in front of our camp, while I had the kids working cleaning the shells, Levi mainly made mud.

A piece of shell Levi found 

Poor kids

Paige loved these rocks

Out at Pardoo Tavern we grabbed some supplies and the lady behind the counter gave Levi a snake skin that her dog tried to eat that morning.

Another sunset

More shells

Day 106 – Goldwire RA to Cape Keraudren – sunny 32

Levi content with his bone

Just after this photo was taken fishermen came from everywhere and the beach was packed within minutes.

80 Mile Beach was beautiful and busy, there were fisherman everywhere up and down the beach, nothing much had been caught this year, 3 thread fin salmon and 1 mullaway the day before.

Smoko

We had morning tea and headed up the road, which this proved to be a great idea.

Beach combing

We loved Cape Kerauden, especially our spot which was protected from the wind, we also could see the sunset and sunrise over the ocean from our camp, it was posh.

In the words of Forrest Gump "I run like the wind blows"

Our front yard was massive rock pools, so we drove 2 minutes up the road to Cootenbrand Creek and Beach. Now this place has shells, tonnes of them, we stayed out there until sunset.

Serenity

Day 105 – Quondong to Goldwire Rest Area – sunny 31

Glenn and Paige watching Snow White

Levi was so exhausted he didn't even wake when we put him back in the car.

We stopped in at Gantheaume Point and Beach after getting supplies in Broome and checking out the Sun Pictures Outdoor Cinema. The Point was beautiful but you could only see the dinosaur footprints at low tide, by 1pm we headed out of Broome to our next camp.