Karajini National Park

This is our camp at Dales Gorge. Note the lovely grassy sites. Red Dust love it.
These are 2 criminals I picked up. We are actually warming ourselves in the sun just after sunrise as it was only 2 degrees at dawn.
Meet Ranger Bill. He was given a work sheet to complete which he did and passed with flying colours and in return he became a Junior Ranger and he thought that allowed him to boss us around. As you can see my sewing skills have never improved..bit crooked.
One of the many lookouts overlooking the gorges which were approx 100m deep.
This is at Circular Pool at the end of Dales Gorge.
Billy and Deni took a shine to this piece of amazing rock. It was far too heavy to bring home AND Ranger Billy put his foot down and told us we couldnt bring it out of the Nat Park.
Billy building rock towers throughout the park.
Family shot at Fortesque Falls.
We had a swim here at Fern Pool, water was freezing except for the top 12inches.
Check out the colour formations in the rocks.
This is at Hancocks Gorge just before the Spider Walk. We couldnt make it as it was a bit hairy waiting for Billy to drop off the rock walls.
As you can see in this shot Dave wasquite high up with only rock below to cushion his fall. It was an amazing walk.
This was a long wide load that stopped us on the way home. It took up the entire HWY. We were so glad we didnt have to follow it as they moved at about 10klm per hour.

Sockos place in Port Hedland

We were camped in Sockos back yard and this is the view from our van. The iron ore ships come right in to within a few hundred metres of the shore as they go thru the narrow channel into the harbour. Not much else you can say bout Port Hedland, its pretty much a mining town.

Millstream National Park

Millstream was a gorgeous place. We stayed at Crossing Pool and this shot was taken right in front of our campsite in the late afternoon. It was a great swimming hole.
As you can see, Deni is fully relaxed while Billy cooks dinner again...He's getting very good at it too.
These 2 are of our campsite.
Another angle with a full view of Billys flat on the right. Dave is sorting out our plans for the day with Rangers in background.
We climbed to the top of Mt Herbert and added some rocks to the rock towers up there. Everywhere you go you find these towers. You are supposed to add 1 rock but theboys got carried away. As you can see in the background there is a whole lot of nothing. It is sooo barren in some areas.

40Mile Beach

This is our view from our campsite at 40 mile beach and we had to wake up to this every morning...
Our neighbour Derick was teaching Billy the Didge after a couple of beers. (none for Billy of course)
Even though he looks like he's had a couple. He actually picked it up really well. We were all surprised.
Billy wanted to make a spear so Dave gave him the whittling knife and let him go for it. It took up a few hours of the day.

Bullara Station.

These are some of the grounds at Bullara where we stayed for the 2wks school hols. It has been a fantastic place to stay and thoroughly recommend it to anyone.
We had outside showers and the shower roses were as big as dinner plates and the endless hot water provided by a donkey. ask and we will tell you bout the donkey..
Beautiful showers..
Some of the locals came in to check us out each afternoon. Our van is just next to this fence.
Billy having his first ever ride on a horse. How confident does he look....NOT... The horse was 35 yrs old so he was pretty safe and in no chance of bolting.
Some beautiful sunsets from our van.
What can I say, "they just fall all over me wherever I go. No, these are Olivia and Lucy and they own Bullara and they are soooo cute. They were our tour guides and Billy went to their classroom for a couple of days which he loved.
Just one of the kids cubby houses, they had plenty. Tildy is the farm dog and she is gorgie too.
Dave has been out doin his chores getting the firewood for the Donkey and our own personal camp fire. Good chance to try out the chain saw, she works!!!!
We went for a walk with the girls to the red sand dunes and they were unreal. It was just like beach sand only RED. They played for ages rolling down and tackling one another. Bad choice of shorts colour Billy. They are now permanently red.
The colours around this place are beautiful
Yes we can still watch the footy while we cook on the camp fire.. Stae of origin , why did we bother
This is our camp site, how bloody organised I say..We cooked every meal on there including roast lamb bakey, scones, fish, prawns and scollops, stews, dampers YUMMO....but Dave reckons Denise's 1st damper made excellent firewood. It burnt for hours... Can't believe I just wrote that and didn't kill him...
This is outside our van just before sunset

Exmouth to Cape range National Park

Here we go....
Day 1 and the locals were all out shopping. Dave was sitting in the park having a cuppa and a car pulled up and started taking fotos of him, he turned around and here was the emu about to drink his cuppa and that is what the people were shooting... Dave thought he was being stalked..
This is at Sandy Beach in the Nat Park and it was glorious.
This is looking up towards Yardie Creek in the Nat park.
We are standing on this very pebbly beach at one of the camps in the NP.
This is Pebble Beach in Exmouth and it sure has some pebbles.

Exmouth fishing expedition on Ningaloo reef

This is the little tinny we went fishing in. It cost 1/4million just for the boat and it flew. Our friend Greg owns this boat and what a great guy he was. He supplied everything and took us out twice. We saw everything from snapper to whales, sharks and turtles. It was an amazing day.
Billy shat himself when he felt how strong the snapper were, he needed Dave's help now and then.
This was one of my Robertson sea bream, it looked much bigger in real life, he just flipped as the shot was taken..REALLY it did. I actually had a huge snapper on and Dave videod me winding or should I say trying to wind it in. It took forever and then a great big tiger shark took it. BUGGER I said.
Now we are getting bigger....
And bigger...........
Cleaning time is always fun..yucky poo.