We’ve done 10,000 plus land kilometres and going strong!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi to all,

Following on from our last post we had another two days in Kalbarri where we did some more walks and just did some more relaxing.

We left Kalbarri and headed north east to our lunch time stop at the Billabong Roadhouse. We were amazed how many boats we saw being towed either south or north. We surmised there must have been some fishing competitions occurring!Moving on toward our overnight destination we visited Shell Beach. Shell Beach is near Nanga Bay and is a unique world wonder. Shell Beach is made up entirely of the Hamelin Cockle. Trillions of these tiny bivalves stretch 120 kilometres along the coast and are 9 metres thick in places. The water is twice as salty as normal sea water which means if you go for a swim you float good.

We then travelled on to our free camp at Whalebone Bay. What a marvellous campsite.

 The next day we travelled in to Denham to our caravan park.  We visited the Tourist Visitor Centre and Shark Bay Discovery Museum as well as the Little Lagoon, Monkey Mia and the Denham foreshore.

The first thing I did today was ring my brother Adrian whom had his 60^th birthday today. Well done Adrian!  Today was to be one of the “trip moments” for us. Early morning, we drove 26 kilometres to Monkey Mia. Monkey Mia in Shark Bay is quite well known in Australia as a place where Indo-Pacific dolphins visit throughout the year. The area is controlled by the Department of Parks & Wildlife and there are strict protocols in place for the safety of the dolphins. If you are lucky you get chosen to feed a dolphin a fish. The dolphins are fed only 3 times each morning and I reckon there were about a hundred people at our event.

 After our early start to feed the dolphins it was back to camp for a shower, breakfast and pack up and we were on the road by 10;15 am. We retraced our steps 128 kilometres to the Overlander Roadhouse before swinging north and stopping after 15 kilometres for our lunch at a rest area. Then it was on past Wooramel to Eddagee where we are free camped for the night. Tomorrow we shall be in Carnarvon.On the way to Carnarvon “Lightning” (our Mitsubishi Triton) clocked over 100,000 kilometres! We have now done over 10,000 land kilometres since leaving Tasmania. We arrived in Carnarvon and are in a caravan park for two nights.  Today we checked out the town and visited the Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum that celebrates the little-known history of the role Carnarvon played in the manned NASA space programme and in Australia’s communication industry. I was really looking forward to this as I had been to Cape Canaveral and seen all their stuff including the shuttle “Discovery”.