Darryl and I did all the walks except the huge summit walk which takes hours & is a big challenge - even for those younger than us. Our longest walk was a 6km hike up to Edney’s lookout which provided excellent views of the area.
From there we traveled to the Kennedy Ranges and were very happy when we came across Luke, who catches and trains wild camels. We follow him on YouTube so it was great to see him in real life. He was walking these camels to Broome - walking about 30km a day so no easy feat!
The Kennedy Ranges are spectacular with rock formations quite unique - especially the ones in Honeycomb Gorge.
At the Temple Gorge campgrounds we had a very social night around our campfire as all other travellers joined us. We all enjoyed meeting different folk and learning of their travels.
We were back in Carnarvon on Sunday to refuel and grab some supplies before heading out to the Quobba Blowholes. There’s a low cost camp there we were told was great - but when we arrived, it was jam packed and not really appealing so we went on to Quobba station. Here we enjoyed a long walk along the beach - although it’s not a swimming beach.
We also cleaned much of the red dust out of our vans and cars - which was promptly replaced by sand! We furthered our knowledge of the HMAS Sydney tragedy as it is on this station that the German survivors landed in their life boats. They must have been dismayed to land in this desolate, waterless landscape. Strangely enough, these sailors ended up being interred at Murchison Vic, before returning to Germany after the war.
Quite a feature at Quobba are the blowholes which are really something special, and the ‘aquarium’ which is a sheltered swimming and snorkelling beach. We swam here and despite not having snorkeling gear, did see beautiful little fish swimming around us. We were also very fortunate to see a whale breaching - he was a little too far away for cameras.
We are heading further north towards Exmouth and have booked into the very popular Bullara station. We are learning more about WA as we travel - their roads, even outback dirt ones are excellent (so far!) but our GPS is absolutely hopeless once you leave the main road! Follow their directions and you’d be lost! We also are surprised at how desolate the land is - right up to the coast line, and the population is sparse. Totally different to the east coast. We found out the hard way about the liquor restrictions as the bottle shops are closed Sunday & Monday and don’t reopen till mid day Tuesday! Oh, and they also have millions of flies!
We are enjoying lovely weather - low 30’s during the day and pleasant nights for sleeping. We also see beautiful sunsets over the Indian Ocean. We hope it’s not too cold at home and that it rains again soon. Till the next instalment, love from us ❌❌❌❌
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