wave rock, Australian Salmon James caught

Take a look at that Aust Salmon caught off Cape Le Grand Esperance off Hellfire Beach from the rocks, Caught him straight away dam amazing

Pinnacles, Wave Rock, Salmon

oh dam it next blog will have the Salmon, so here we have the Pinnacles Nat Park and we were disgusted that you can drive your car around the place, also we came across all these utes with Dog in the Ute written across them. Apparrently there is a competion in Corrigin WA with how many dogs can u pack into a Ute. Gees they must get bored out here. From Perth on we have stuck really windy and cold weather. Good for pics though. One a/noon we had to set up camp in the rain at Sth of Esperance at Cape Le Grand Nat Park at Lucky Bay. Lovely place n water is turqois, but dam windy.

14 mile beach fish cleaning table.

Yardie Homestead Ningaloo Marine Park

Monkey Mia & 14 Mile Beach

Murchison Station the kids in the wool shed.

Shell beach on the way out of Monkey Mia. The entire beach is made up of shells.

Arriving at Monkey Mia the temperature had dropped to around 22 degrees with a water temp of 21 and the wind was howling. In fact WA stands for "windy always" or "wait a while." We were a tad unlucky to experience the off shoot of the horrible Perth weather rain and 16degrees Eeeek and back on Melbourne its mid 20s. Anyway we thought Monkey Mia would be over commercialized but quite the contrary. We were lucky with a beach front camp site and we all went on a Catamaran trip to hunt down Dugongs which are a very shy animal similar to seals but a lot larger and here 12% of the Dugong

gong population exists. The boys loved the boat and it was so relaxing lying on the trampoline like netting gazing skyward at the sails. One of my favourite spots is 14 mile beach, absolute beach front camping and the water was so turquoise. Whilst doing some late afternoon exercise looking out to the ocean a turtle pocked his head up. A tough spot to exercise.

Ningalo Reef fun

Hump Back Whales migrating down to the Antarctic, also a beached whale in Exmouth. Very windy here and then we moved onto 14 mile Beach on the Tropic of Capricorn, absolute beach front camping at $10 a night was pure bliss.

Airborne

Yardie Homestead just out of Exmouth in WA was a fabulous place to camp. We met a family who owned a motorized parachute and Murray suggested maybe James could have a flight with him. So just prior dusk Murray rigged up his machine whilst his wife Jules fired up the engine like starting a lawn mower. I must admit I was little concerned particularly when the 1st attempt was aborted due to the parachute getting hooked under the wheel, anyway 2nd attempt was a success and I was soon hurdled down the runway with my family in awe. Once up the breeze was nice and the view absolutely to die for. This was so good, better than any chopper ride. From Yardie we did day trips into Cape Range Nat Park and visited Turquois bay for a reef drift that was fabulous, we also did Oyster Stacks snorkling and all in all was fabulous.

Cape leveque continues

oyster on the rocks literally,

Cape leveque continues

All pics here are of Cape Leveque oh and the replacement camper. Also a pic of the hut that the boys slept in one night.

Broome and Cape Leveque

This is Cape Leveque with the boys sleeping about 6am. An amazing place place where we picked our own oysters off the rocks in daylight, camped on the beach in a hut with shower. Third pic down shows dinosaur foot prints 120 mil yrs old and they are only visable on certain days in the month. And the pic of the cars are on Broome beach.