Day 31

Day 31 – Cleaverville

Morning has broken like the first dawning, blackbird has spoken… and so on (you have to sing it like Cat Stevens did). Well morning had broken and the blackbird did speak, it was a crow on the roof.

Maureen on top of the hill

The view

Woke us up at the crack of dawn, well 8:00 with a crow walking up and down the roof. He was not the only wildlife we had last night. There were tracks of Ghost Crabs all around the caravan and I am sure a set of dingo prints going across the track, but the sand was too soft to get a clear picture, but it was definitely canine. Talking of Cat Stevens, you would think a person with mega-gigs of music would have no problems of putting together a good collection of driving songs, it is a bit hard when they are sitting at home where you would not forget them. I was stuck with what I had on my laptop, Cat Stevens,

The view

Flower

Michael Buble, Blondie and the best of Smokie. After 3 weeks of them I can just about sing them all off by heart, hence the opening line, thank god for the internet and I have now extended my collection to include ABBA and Bee Gees.

Once we had breakfast and cleaned up and watched the beach for a while, we packed up and made a run into Karratha. Tia had sent us some mail that was urgent and it was at Karratha Post Office,

Flower

Mangrove Swamp start

Canberra was calling to say we needed to vote and I wanted another Jerry Can Holder for water. We drove into Karratha and I must comment that the track has just been graded and it was great 80 – 90 kmh to the main road. The only problem I have with driving on gravel at speed is that there is this high pitched whine that seems to comes from the passenger’s side – sounds like slow down, slow down, but I just turn the music up louder. The trip in and out on the gravel gave me my Rally fix for the day.

Rocks on the beach

Beautiful Purple flower

You can all rest at ease now, we have voted! The halls of Canberra can rest easy in the knowledge that we have done our bit for democracy. The parties can put their check books away now and save on campaigning as I cannot change my crucial vote. I cannot wait until the Sex Party takes over the upper house! 

We collected the mail, thankyou Tia, in it was my RAC card, a bill from the bank (need to pay my credit card – oops), the letter from my insurance company and a $50 gift voucher to a liquor shop (You Beauty!!), thanks again Tia.

Purple Bush

Sturt Peas on the beach!

Back at Girt, we had lunch and enjoyed the surroundings yet again. The wind is up a bit on yesterday but not too bad. When Maureen went for a walk yesterday, she noticed that there were a number of tracks going around our point, so we decided to go adventuring and take Trude for a spin. Off we went, the whine from the left hand side started again, particularly when we went up this really steep climb that had me leaning forward as it felt like we would tip over backwards!! I must admit, I did listen to the noise a bit after that, but not for long. 

Flower

Tracks we followed

The views are great from the top of the hill at the point. Maureen took a video of the view to try and get it across, have a look, especially at the handsome, debonair, young adventurer next to his trusty steed. We went down to the mangrove swamp area and I am sure you could get a Muddy or two there. Then back along the edge of the mud flats and looped back to the main road in. on the way back to camp, we drove along the road to the south to look at the other camp areas and they are nice. On the beach, quiet, smaller groups but the beaches are not as nice as where we are, but they would do if these were not available.

Watching the Sun Set

View at the point

There was some lovely purple flowered smoke bushes near the other sites that we had not seen anywhere else, but there was just clumps of them everywhere in just this one place, see pictures.

I am back at camp now running the “Genny” to charge everything up and doing this page and Maureen has gone off to the beach. We move on tomorrow to Cove Caravan Park at Point Sampson and are there until Tuesday. We have not planned anything beyond there except to continue in a Northerly direction.