We had a slow start today, maybe not a slow start but a leisurely one.
We bid farewell to Cervantes at around 9am with the goal of just heading North for a while. This we managed quite well. Every little road that headed for the coast was explored and we love this place!!!!
There are so many little fishing shanty villages on the coast it looks for all the world like the Tasmanian West coast. Every little sand track seems to have a shanty or two or three at the end of it. Some of them have jetties that would see a fairly large Cray boat mooring. Cray boats are every where off the coast, most unlike the Tassie boats but there are heaps of them all along the coast. Makes you wonder why we had to pay $15 for half a fresh Cray at Cervantes. Some things we just have to do !!!!.
We found a little spot for lunch at Point Louise just after we left Jurien Bay which was a lovely spot and we would spend some time there under less constrained circumstances.
Back to the lunch stop Ya gota see the view from our picture windows to believe it. just superb.
Jurien Bay out of Mavis’s window.
A good feed and off again exploring. Love this place (think I said that before)!
We found lots of beautiful coastal camps and just plain beautiful places on the way north.
We travelled on until we found Seven mile beach. It is not listed in the Camps book but when we arrived at about 3:30 there was a motor home and two caravans with two wiz bangers already camped up. So as you do at such a late hour we dropped anchor for the night.
We were sitting around in the late afternoon sunshine partaking of the compulsory beverages when a couple that were camped just down from us struggled off the beach with a fully laden fish bin. He was in wet suit with spear gun in hand. Curiosity got the better of Rod so as you do he casually strolled down with stubby in hand to see if they needed a hand. Bad move Rod Cleaning and cooking fish was the punishment for the curiosity for both of us, Mavis did the lions share of scaling. Check these babies out.
Rod flashed up the Webber at the van and helped Mavis and team fillet the catch. Generously Brian and his lovely Lady invited the whole mob that was camped up to enjoy the spoils of Brian’s great haul.
The evening was spent in great company with great food and a great sunset.
Tomorrow is another day.
You guys must check out Steep Point (western most point of Australia) when you’re in the area. Can’t take the van, but if you’ve got a tent with you, it is well worth the drive and an overnight stay. It was one of the highlights of our trip last year. We left the van at Hamlin Pools.