Sunrise.
Warming in the rising sun as we eat our breakfast.
The twice daily drill of loading and unloading the luggage.
Our permanent tents.
Time for a window cleaning.
A mountain being dismantled by iron ore mining.
More of the spring flowers.
An ex-Canadian and extended Australian family.
Sunday
September 25th
We
got up and had a leisurely breakfast and got off to a bit of a late
start. We drove out of Karijini NP to a Shell station in the town of
Tom Price (named after the financier of the local mine). Then we
drove out towards the coast. I was sitting in the front with Damien
and we had a good talk about stuff (his life and mine) while
listening to a whole bunch of Eels songs. We made a couple of pit
stops along the way including another at area of amazing wildflowers,
(Damien says he has never seen it like this), and a picnic area for
lunch with a number of galahs watching us. I talked to a family who
were also eating there. Turns out it was a man from Barrie who has
lived in Australia for 45 years with his Australian wife and one of
their sons and his wife with two grandkids.
It
was a long day of driving and it didn't help that we got delayed a
bit by road work. We arrived in Exmouth about an hour before sunset,
and did a quick shop. Then we drove up a hill to a lighthouse for a
quick photo op of the ocean, and then drove to our wilderness camp
ground. We got there at sunset. It was windy and kind of cool and so
far under whelming. No wi-fi, no cell coverate and no electric, and
not much to do except wait for dinner and then go to bed.
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