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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