Day 10
After a hearty breakfast of cereal, yoghurt, toast, eggs, bacon, sausages and coffee at the Potshot's restaurant, it was off to explore Exmouth.
Having eaten all that food, Sue needed a little lay down on the day bed at the hotel before we left for our tourist trek.
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| We can see one of these going up at her house |
We made our way around to the shops, where Mags and Sue went souvenir shopping. Then with an extra sweet smelling passenger aboard, we headed out to the Lighthouse and the Jurabi Turtle Centre doing the tourist thing. We had a few strange looks from other travellers with Albert and Sue's new friend having their photo taken along the way. But we could see they were thinking "what a good idea".
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| Exmouth Lighthouse |
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| Albert and Sue's new friend at Jurabi |
The Jurabi Turtle Centre is located on the Jurabi Coastal Reserve. It's an interpretive educational facility constructed in recognition of the urgent need to manage turtle-visitor interaction and minimise the impact of human disturbance on nesting marine turtles along the Ningaloo coast. There are displays about turtle biology and behaviour, threats, appropriate observation techniques and conservation strategies. You can actually volunteer to come up here and help out during the season.
We decided to try and make Carnarvon before dark, but we didn't want to go hungry on the trip so headed back in to Exmouth refuelling and grabbing some rolls at Brumbys, along with a bag of doughnuts for the trip. Nice service at Brumbys Bakery in Exmouth.
Captain Mags was our pilot with Co-pilot Sue keeping an eye out for any stray sheep or roos.
A short stop at the Big Prawn to grab some prawns for the road (more food) and learn about the Gascoyne Food Trail which we think we may have already done with all the food we have had already.
It wasn't long before we were on our way again, past hundreds of giant termite mounds. No need to tell you what Sue was thinking and,
NO, she was not allowed to stop for a photo shoot.
We took a slight detour to have a look at Coral Bay and were all shocked to see just how busy it is now. No longer a quiet little hamlet, but still very beautiful. Very, very touristy. Parked the van in the shade whilst Sue and Mags went for a stroll and Tez searched accommodation online for Carnarvon.
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| Coral Bay |
Back on the road, heading for Minilya Roadhouse, we had missed the phonebox in the middle of nowhere but we had one very important photo stop to make at the Tropic of Capricorn.
The Tropic is a climatic frontier. The territory to the north has warm, dry winters, while to the south winters are usually cool and wet. So we knew it would be getting cooler from now on.
After a quick icecream & toilet break at the Minilya Roadhouse, which has the smelliest toilets ever, we headed off to Carnarvon going back to the same fruit & veg place we had stopped at before. It was later in the day and there wasn't as much variety as before, but the bananas were still $6.00 a kilo so we grabbed a few bags before heading into town to find accommodation for the night.
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| Mags setting up in Hobbitville |
Capricorn caravan park had a cabin available, Tez got the double bed, (again woohoo) Mags & Sue the bottom bunks and Bugsy got the mattress on the floor, while all the bags got the top bunks. It was a little hobbit cabin. We used their share kitchen and cooked up some leftovers from the island, tested out the camping table and chairs as we ate even more food and checked out the map of where we are headed tomorrow and the best way to get to Coalseam Conservation Park.
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| A couple of happy campers |
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