Sunday 11th September - We say farewell our Island dream

Day 9
Rise and shine, we are off the island today. Everyone was busy packing and getting ready to depart.
Sue headed off for one last shell collecting expedition. Then we all pitched in, packed and cleaned up.

Drew arrived to let us know we would be leaving at 1.00pm as the sea was calm enough to go, even though it still looked a little rough to us.

I hope there's room for all the shells.

We said our goodbyes to the Thevenard Crew and headed back to the mainland with the people from the Ashburton Resort, who didn't even remember us from a week ago which was a bit strange. They had come over on Friday for a weekender. 

The trip back was a bit solem and a little rougher than the one over, we still had no-one suffer from sea sickness. About the only thing we did have was just the rocking boat feeling when we went to bed.

Goodbye island we'll miss you

Group shot with our host Drew.

A quick stop in Onslow for fuel, icecreams, snacks and cigarettes and we were on our way to Exmouth.

Back on Highway 1

The road into Exmouth was quite slow as it was full of free roaming sheep with lambs, Bugsy did an excellent job with Co-pilot Sue as we managed to miss them all, but a couple of little potteroos now have big headaches.

When we finally got to Exmouth at about 7pm, everything was closed. After ringing around the caravan parks, we found out that they do not take people after dark - that doesn't sound very tourist friendly does it.

We were lucky enough to get a unit from the lovely lady at the Potshot Resort, it was open until 9pm.
A quick unpack, then off to the restaurant for a Surf & Turf where we got to cook the steaks ourselves. We all thoroughly enjoyed the steak and the garlic sauce was divine.

Look at the thickness of that steak.

Trying to get an icecream in Exmouth after dinner is worse than trying to get accommodation, everything apart from the bottle shops were shut even the garage.

Tomorrow we are doing a bit of sight seeing, hopefully there will be something open in daylight. Very disappointing first impression of Exmouth.