Arriving in Exmouth one of the first things we did was to
try and clean out all of the dust that had gotten into the van after our drive
in and out of the Emu Creek Station. I tried to block all the orifices of the
caravan with some paper towel, but the dreaded red dust still got in.
We needed to stop in
Exmouth to stock up on food, do some washing and recharge everything before we
headed into the Cape Range National Park. But most importantly Doug needed to
be somewhere he could listen to the NRL semi-finals. Jacob was very happy with the Cowboy’s
result.
I thought Exmouth was going to be a beach side town. Not so
- it was built in the 1960’s to service the Naval and Air force bases that are
located on either side of it. It’s actually 1 or 2k’s from the beach.
On our drive out to check out the Vlamingh light house we
came across these huge towers, 13 of them in total. We later found out they are the submarine
communications towers. Pretty impressive.
The light house is no longer operational, it was simply replaced some
years ago with a light at the top of the tallest submarine communications
tower. We got a great view from the light house of the coast line and ocean,
seeing quite a few whales doing their stuff not far off shore.
The van park had a great camp kitchen so Nate decided we
should make some desert. Apple crumble
and icecream (a real treat) was enjoyed by everybody. It’s been a while since
we have had a good camp kitchen with an oven.
They mostly have been a barbeque and a table.
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| The dreaded dust gets in everywhere. |
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| We drove out to Charles Knife Gorge. |
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| Pretty impressive |
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| A very deep gorge that seemed to go on for ever |
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| Pebble beach. Lots of pebble that have worn away from the conglomerate rocks out of the gorge. |
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| Submarine communications towers |
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| Lookout at the light house |
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| Wild flowers |
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| Bundegi Beach |
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| The boys went for a snorkel not much to see . There is a reef about 1k out - but we weren't going to swim out there. We did see some whales breaching though - pretty spectacular. |
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| Whale Shark just in case we don't see one in the water |
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