Day: 15 July 2019

After our few relaxing days at 14 mile beach, we left about 10am and travelled up the road to have lunch at Coral Bay . Nice, but very busy, so not our cup of tea, so to speak. I walked up to a lookout and took a couple of photos, before we left.

That evening we pulled into a roadside camp to spend the night before going to Exmouth the next day. Spent the whole day there looking around and getting a set of tyres on the car.

There is a fair amount to see there about WWII.

Also a ship wreck off the point

The beach front on this side of the Exmouth Gulf is very stony, but the oysters on the pier pylons were huge

That evening we were later than normal getting back to the highway, where we fueled up at a roadhouse, and made the decision to do another hour of travel before stopping for the night .We have 300 kms to go before we get to Karratha, where we have the car booked in for a service, the next morning. Driving on into the Pilbara, I took a photo thinking, how special is this place. You can see why people are so attracted to it.

Then it happened. BANG !!!

The weather cleared, and it was a bit of a non event really. Just a time to stop and catch up with fellow travellers, who give some good and some not so good comments on where to camp and the condition of the roads. We took one neighbours advice and headed out to Warroora Station, known as 14 mile beach camp . It was an hour or so drive off the highway, and we had to let the pressure down on the tyres before entering. When we arrived we were shown to a top spot on the beach front, by the caretakers.

Yes this will do us !! The station itself is huge and has a lovely beach that is protected buy the reef offshore. Can see why people from down south come up here and camp for the winter. Great fishing and swimming, and lots of off road tracks to explore.

The view from the windows of van, not bad either.

Chris is finding it hard to stay still for long, so our daily drives on the property gave him something to do and allowed me to get more photos of the place. Plenty of other campers all over the station, but mainly along the beach front.

Could quite easily get lost, but having the water on the west makes it easy to find your way back.

A bit of fun with the camera

And at the end of the day there was always a beautiful sunset over the water. Loved our 4 days here, especially having our first swims, after being in the dry Wheat belt area .