A touch of paradise

I can't believe we actually have service out here


17th June - After a lovely quiet night in the caravan park in Denham we transferred the camper to the National Park. The road in is 4wd only and quite sandy especially towards to tip of the cape, the only hiccup was getting stuck in the sandy road when we had to move aside for another oncoming vehicle. 

A couple of times along the way we
skirted what was a lake on the map
but now a carpet of heather and the
road was very firm and level (a nice
change from the corrugations and ruts)

The road is very sandy between wheel tracks and as we had to mount the side we lost traction but it was just a matter of letting the tyres down even more and driving it out. We had planned on going to Gregories campsite but the driver we gave way to told us to go to South Gregories as they had just spent a few days there and it was perfect, so we took his advice and set up in a lovely big site to ourselves (only 2 other couples in the campground) right above the water’s edge, with a short path beside the camper down to the shore. 

How's this for a water view?

After lunch we went for a drive further up the cape and called in at the campsite we had planned on going to and are so glad we had to give way to that driver this morning or we’d have been very disappointed (no close to shore camping and a very difficult descent to the, mostly rock, ‘beach’). We drove on up to Cape Peron and walked out on Cormorant Point to see the cold and warm currents meet and a pod of dolphins rounding up there feed. Though it was out a fair way it was still something to see!!

Shovel nose shark

We called in at Skipjack Point on the way back and were rewarded by the sight of a number of sharks and stingrays in the bay below, we also saw a turtle and eaglerays as well as a shovel nosed shark. We spent ages watching and Ray noticed the surface breaking up straight out in front of us with birds swooping, then a couple of sharks went in for a feed. It was fantastic to have a bird’s eye view even though we’ve seen it so many times on TV. 

I'm guessing the new age lighthouse

Red cliffs at Cape Peron