Sunday 20th May 2018
Well we don’t quite know what to make of where we stayed last night. It was an unusual station. There was a gold drilling exploration which meant there were mine workers staying there plus a lot of elderly people and then a couple of campers. The owners were in there 80s and were no longer working the station, it was originally a sheep station, then they tried their hands at cattle and now it is struggling to make ends meet. It was quite old and the facilities are also old but it was OK for the night.

Before we headed off we chatted with the owners and had a cup of tea with them and decided to go and have a look at Red Rock which was on their property. It was a big red rock with more Aboriginal drawings. It isn’t mentioned in any tourist brochures, so yet another untouched Aboriginal historic site. I would love to have an Aborigine explain the drawings a bit so we could understand them a bit better.

We finally got on our way at about 11.30am. Another slow start to the day. So much for making it to Broome today. We drove along some very straight highways of similar scenery. We decided to stop early at 80 Mile Beach at about 4.30pm as the next place to stop wasn’t till about 6pm and as we head further east the sun is setting earlier. 5.30pm today. So we are trying to stop earlier. We managed a walk along 80 Mile Beach before sunset. It is a lovely Caravan Park, it has 150 powered sites and 50 unpowered, is very green with lots of trees. It is very nice. The only problem with where we are now is the big 5 – sharks, box jelly fish, irukandji, crocodiles and snakes. All this beautiful water, lovely temperature and the water is out of bounds. Oh well, we will have to find something else to do.

We really are enjoying the change of pace and the holiday is going really well. Hope you are enjoying our travels.

I forgot to mention we saw the biggest eagle on the side of the road yesterday. It would have stood almost a metre tall. Its talons were so big.