Day 27

Day 27 Dampier

A not so busy day, after all the festivities of last night, we had a slow day today. Maureen was up and

View from top of hill of Karratha

Pigeon acting suspiciously

out for an early walk as usual. After breakfast we reviewed the options available to us and decided we needed to visit the Visitor Centre, so off we went. The centre is good with options available for day trips about, but they only run certain days and those are Monday to Friday and we are only here Monday before we depart for Millstream. We adjourned to the Shopping Centre for a coffee to think

Sunset over the Bay

Sunset over the bay

about it. We decided on a Port to Port tour and I was to book it whilst Maureen went off to look around for some essentials we needed.

Unfortunately the only tour on Monday was full so we are not able to do that. Following this we left to go back to camp and rethink our day. We spent the afternoon relaxing and enjoying the views from the park of the bulk carriers coming and going, absolutely fabulous. We spotted a Spinifex Pigeon that we are sure is the same one following us around, check out the photo. It is definitely acting suspiciously and runs off when we look at it . We

Night time T-Ball

At the launching ramp

went down for a ride at sunset, it was supposed to be earlier but Mate (Maureen’s bike) had blown a tyre. All hands on deck to find where we had stored the tubes and repair kit. Found and new tyre installed – did not help that we had the wrong diameter tube 1.75 – 2.1 instead of 1.25, but hey it was just a challenge to be mastered. Off we went and saw another bulk carrier going out and all the lights on the ships coming on.

We went down to the boat ramp to watch small boats come in from fishing, a mean person would say that they all had good days and had met limits without problems, a meaner person would not say what type and size they had, sorry Rob. From the ramp we went to the nearby oval and watched the kids playing T-Ball, had a ball watching the teams play under lights. We adjourned to the van for the night for dinner. Tomorrow we need to get a bit more organised and do some house keeping with finances when the banks open and set ourselves up a bit more for the remote camping coming up.