Dampier Peninsular

 

You will have to imagine these three photos lined up, I'm having trouble getting the photos to stay in the right place on this blog

31st May - 4 June - We stayed at Middle Lagoon, on the Dampier Peninsular, for 5 days, mostly having a relax. What a beautiful spot!! 

So quiet, we have a secluded campsite just to ourselves again with plenty of shade and a campfire, it’s pretty well untouched up here. The dirt road with many corrugations on the corrugations that are like a mini roller coaster, ensure only the determined get up here, though the long weekend brought a lot more campers and still there was plenty of room. We went snorkelling in the beautiful clear, blue ocean each afternoon (it’s been too windy each morning) and swam with lots of different types of fish, a turtle,  saw small stingrays that were doing a pretty good job of hiding in the sandy bottom or showing their bright blue dots to us, maybe to scare us off!! Some lovely colours amongst the coral. It’s so easy to keep snorkelling and not realise how far out you get just following the fish. Valleys between the reefs were like highways with every kind and size of fish all heading in the one direction, reminding me of 'Finding Nemo'. We’d see something new each time we went out.  A pity our video doesn’t do it justice, we were so close to the reef at low tide that the bottom was disturbed so the video is not real clear.

The obligatory sunset

We went rock scrambling and Ray did some fishing, watched the sunset, walked the beach  collecting some shells and I got some craft done so we had quite a good relaxing time all up. It was lovely to just sit, listen to the bush and watch the birds.

We spent one day further up the peninsular, visiting the Trochus Shell farm at One Arm Cove and the Pearl Farm at Cygnet Bay then on to Cape Levique but when we got there what we could see of it didn’t look inviting and we had to pay at the reception to visit. Having heard that it was quite commercialised now, gearing mostly towards those who stayed at the resort and since we’d already felt a bit ripped off from the other 2 ‘tours’ we decided it was just as well to go back to Middle Lagoon. 

We had the first cloudy sky in almost 6 weeks, on Monday morning. Sounds like this could be the norm for the next few days at least.