Carnarvon, Denham, Monkey Mia, Kilbarry, Geraldton

(8th Sep) Louise at shell beach on the way into Monkey Mia, there were literally billions and billions of shells on the beach.

(9th Sep) Monkey Mia.

(9th sep)  Monkey Mia with the dolphins.

(Wed 8th Sep) Both of us on the lookout of Ealge Bluff, can you see how clear the water was below, we are about  two to three hundred metres above the ocean there. Not a breath of wind.

(Wed 8th Sep) Matt at the Red Bluff lookout! it was absolutely mind blowing, we stayed there for nearly an hour just staring out to sea spotting schools of fish being chased by sharks.

( 7th-10th Sep) Our campsite in the distance about 50km from Monkey Mia at a place called 'Whalebone Bay' there were only around 3-5 other people camping there!

(Fri 10th Sep) Louise at a look out over the Murchison river in the Kilbarri national park.

(Fri 10th Sep) Matt at a lookout over the Indian Ocean outside of Kilbarri

(11th sept 10) This is where we arrived today at a lovely seaside free camp spot, 100km south of Geraldton.

(10th Sept) Louise and I at a lookout just outside of Kilbarri W.A, we could see whales and a pod of dolphins swimming just below us, it was mind blowing stuff!

(10th Sept) From one of the lookouts outside Kilbarri Nat Park where we could spot whales and dolphins, there were about half a dozen of these lookouts stretched across 20km. The views were amazing with the sheer size of these cliffs, it really makes your own life look insignificant.

Well hello again happy campers,  Matt here;

We have been blessed by the internet gods of a good reception over the past few days, mainly due to the fact we are only now 350km north of Perth, perched up for a bit in a lovely free camp spot by the Indian Ocean (see pic).

After arriving in Carnarvon, it was a quite a disappointing place; it was like a ghost town and the only person I spoke to was a drunk Aboringinal man, because he was standing on the corner of the street looking lost and he eyeballed me, so I just said to him "Hello" and he replied "you know what, people are really nice these days" and I replied back "well with a lovely day like this, it is a great reason to be nice".  And that was that, we stayed in Carnarvon at a boat ramp (because it was free) for the night and rose very early the next day to 'get the hell outta here' as Louise put it, she hated it and actually got her bum outta bed before me for a change (6am) to quickly make our brekky and leave!

Our next place of call was Denham and Monkey Mia, where we found a great free campsite by the sea (see pic) and stayed there for 2 nights, where we made trips into Denham and Monkey Mia.  Denham was a nice seaside town, but like most seaside towns we have seen on the coast of W.A., it has been built out and has become quite commercial e.g. (a 3 bedroom house $500,000+). We found out also Monkey Mia was not a town, but a national park where you had to pay $8.00 each to get into see the dolphins, but it was worth it!  Especially as the kind lady on the gate said 'please us the facilities at the resort'. Now I took this quite literally and espying a chalet type room, with the door open and the occupants now gone, and the key on the bench, I decided to (with Louise watching the door) to have a HOT shower (our onboard bathroom only has a cold one at the mo - long story - its complicated) and the idea of a hot one was just too appealing.  So in record time and using the free shampoo & conditioner, I had the fastest shower in the west - west Australia that is!

The dolphins came in at 8am for the first of 3 feeds (all in their own time, because they are wild) with the last one ending at around 10am.  The last feed was the best because there were hardly any tourists around, they all arrived there for the first feed.  (Including us; and trust me it was cold (10C ) but it warmed up later. )  After this we found the resorts camping ground with shower blocks and Louise (who decided I had gone nuts using the shower above) snuck in with her stuff and used that one; H&C showers have it all over the cold kind;  even when the weather is  warm...

While in the Denham area we went to a lookout called Eagle Buff (see pic), and let me tell you, it was the most amazing view I have seen yet on this trip, the weather was so good, the water looked like cling wrap it was so still,  and you could see schools of fish swimming around with sharks chasing them for a feed.  We also saw and heard loads of birds breeding on a nearby island which gave the lookout a bit of character, and we could also see for miles the crystal clear ocean with not a breeze to be felt, it was truly an amazing experience to be in natures arms.

Next we moved onto Kilbarri, another coastal town similar to Denham that has been overrun with grey nomads, before entering the town we passed through the Kilbarri national park, and went to some lookouts of the Murchison River where the mouth of it ends in Kilbarri.  It was worth the look and set us up for the costal lookouts of Kilbarri Nat Park, (probably the second best lookouts to Eagle Bluff). We saw a pod of 20 or so dolphins swimming past and a few large humpback whales flapping their dorsal fins at one another showing off to us mere travellers taking photos of them. The views were spectacular and the colours of the ocean are mesmerisingly beautiful.

Today we landed our spaceship/van in Geraldton WA, the place is quite big and very nice, it has a large port facility that loads all the grain from nearby wheat farms onto ships for export to other parts of the world -  (Asia I presume).  After living on 2 minute noodles, baked beans and rice for the past few days, we decided to splash out and have lunch at McDonalds, but, after a few hours and having not eaten that kind of food for quite a while I had a sudden rush to the mens toilet and it all disappeared very quickly!  LOL...

We decided to drive 100km south of Geraldton and stay at this lovely seaside free camp spot (see pic) for a couple of nights until the rain settles down in Perth, then take a slow couple of days and hit the light fantastic big city of Perth (capital of West Australia for those of you reading this overseas...)

Hope you are all going well and will keep you posted as much as possible.

Hope you are enjoying our blog.

Matt and Louise xoxoxox    P.s.  we have more photos and will add these the next few days for this part of the blog...slow connection at moment.