Day 30

Day 30 Cleaverville

Dawn looking West

Dawn looking North

Well what a great day, we, by that I mean me, did nothing. Last night we were lying in bed and listening to the silence, or as they say, the serenity. It was perfect. There were no sounds at all except the lapping of the water on the beach and it really was just lapping, no breeze, nothing. Absolutely perfect. We got up this morning, same thing, no wind as predicted, still as. We had shade on the van and we sat outside in the

 

shade and watched the water whilst we had breakfast. After breakfast we shifted our chairs a bit and sat and watched the bay. Maureen had hoped to see some whales, so we had tp keep scanning the water. We did succeed in a way when we say a small pod of dolphins swim by, but no big whales.

Maureen got up and got the bits and pieces for lunch so we shifted our chairs a couple of feet and watched the bay whilst we had lunch. We took the dishes inside and exhausted from all this activity,

Light centred Sturt Peas

Maureens mountain paths, looked steeper

we collapsed back into our chairs and watched the water until it was afternoon tea time when we boiled our kettle (Thanks again Marg) and watched the water whilst we drank our tea. Well this slaving went on until about 4:30 when Maureen had a burst of energy and wanted to go for a walk. She set off on her trek and I got out of my chair and started the generator up. Maureen's present works very well, We only want to run it to charge up things like this laptop, our Tablet, the hotspot and a bit into the battery, hence I am doing this blog early.

View with us in the middle on top of sandhill

View South East

Maureen returned after an hour with wild stories of hiking up mountain goat tracks and lookouts and spectacular views, all backed up with umpteen thousand pictures, as you can tell from the pictures here. It turns out we are on bit of an Isthmus, point. In front of us is a bay area with an island to the north. Also to the north is a river inlet with mangroves that comes around behind us to the east and there is a lovely salt plain to the south east of us. All are visible in the pictures as well as

View North East

View North

some more Sturt Peas with the lighter centres, so we now have 2 of the 4 different types of Sturt Peas according to the inter webs. Maureen is definitely missing her trekking partner Karen.

That is really about it for today. Maureen has gone down for another walk on the beach. All this time spent thinking today, we realised that our Spinifex Pigeon has not appeared and Maureen

 

suddenly realised why. When we were packing up at Dampier, he ried to sneak in to the van and Maureen said he could not come but we would be at Millstream. So we think there is a very confused pigeon at Millstream wondering where we are!

View North

Maureen.s Present ready for action