On the road part 2

From Canarvon we hot footed it to Coral bay, where we spent a few days chilling out and enjoying the beach. We bought some snorkels and finally got in to the sea. We crossed the tropic of Capricorn on the way and the temperature really started to rise. We stayed primarily at a camp called 9 mile, 10km away from coral bay on a 4wd track. We got it for free and had a beach on our doorstep. I also managed to catch my first fish, a golden travally on our anniversary !
We heard reports that the weather was getting bad so decided that it was a good time to get on the Yardie Creek road before it starts raining. The road connected Coral bay to Exmouth via the ningaloo homestead, and crosses in to the National Park by the infamous yardie creek river crossing. The reports on the road varied from "you'll find it easy" to its the most dangerous thing that we could possibly undertake and we will probably need towing out by the ranger! Anyway we decided to go for it and it turned out to be nothing more then a beautiful corrugated track winding itself through station land, sand dunes and bush. It was a great way to come to Exmouth and the creek crossing was disappointingly easy, so much so that we waited for the tide to come up the next day to cross it with a little more of a challenge !
And so to Exmouth again , and guess what we are still here, to the point that we have a got a job in the Novotel resort as waiting and bar staff.
Primarily we have been surfing at Dunes, snorkeling heaps, fishing, and oh yeah - swimming with a 5 meter whale shark!
The whale shark trip was awesome, we had a spotter plane out to find the shark and then hot footed it in the boat with 15 others to go a spend some amazing time with this gentle giant. The shark was such an amazing creature to be with, it turned out that it was a she, and like all whale sharks tolerates and almost seems to enjoy having attention of snorkelers following her around. After a few dives we really chilled out and everyone relaxed and swam next to her with ease, so much so that i got a few pictures off .
So now we are house sharing with another couple who work at the Novotel and enjoying Exmouth as a trainee local!

What we are up to next changes every minute so we will try and keep you posted.

as always lots of love

beneluxx

We are on the road .. finally pt1

Its been a while ( as always) Well we finally left Fini Olives in the first week of August . Unfortunaltley due to our cars transmission issues we didnt get to leave the farm with our travelling companions and worked an extra couple of weeks to replenish the funds that the car had ate, by vine pruning on the farm.
A hell of a lot of dollars later, we have a car that has a new transmission and ready to go, all the hard work was over and our Patrol was now our home.

We pretty much followed the same route as last year, we were pretty keen to catch up with "the Irish" so that we can travel the tracks together . Unfortunately that meant missing Kalbarri national park again and really scooted past most stuff until Gladstone bay just south of Canarvon where we met Laura and Damo and Peter.
From then on we pretty much got the in to the swing of things, spending our time camping around Quobba, Red Bluff and Gnaraloo. Last year we saw Quobba and once again we saw it during some heavy weather making the Indian ocean pretty fierce. This year though we could go beyond Quobba on the tracks to Gnaraloo , with Red Bluff on the way. The drive there was entertaining as heavy rain made the tracks in to slop. Red bluff was beautiful, with a large swell showing off the world famous surf break!(No we didn't go in, little on the huge side!)
All in all we spent a week in the canarvon area, and found a great place called Rocky pool to camp for free , and get familiar with low range gears whilst rock climbing in the cars around the river bed . We eventually left after sorting out our alternator that decided to stop working , and whipped it out on the beach! ( as you d0!) TBC

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