Katherine@ Quobba station

We are staying at Quobba station just out of Carnarvon. It's a sheep station on the coast. The landscape is very rocky with very little beach to be seen. The blowholes at the waters edge nearby were a lot of fun to wait for and watch burst through.
This afternoon (after spending most of the morning changing a flat tyre) we headed to a local swimming and fishing spot.
We were planning on trying a little swimming until we were approached by a couple to say that they had seen a gummy shark 5 metres off shore the previous afternoon. The play very rapidly moved to the sand!!

Emily @ Monkey Mia

Today was full of new experiences. We got up really early to drive to Monkey Mia so we could see the dolphins being fed. They came so close to us that they were less than 2 meters away from our knees. After that amazing experience we walked down to the restaurant and ate an enormous brunch! Oliver ate until he was bursting. That was the first time we had seen him full!! And even Abby didn't say "I'm hungry" for the rest of the day!
Later in the afternoon we visited Francois Peron National Park for some sandy 4wd roads and a swim in the artesian spring. The homestead had all the old shearing sheds to look through. I loved seeing the kitchen and shearers quarters with all the old things in them.

Shark Bay

We arrived in Denham, Shark Bay yesterday afternoon in the rain and today we began exploring the area a little.
It was raining this morning so we headed to the local 'Ocean World' to be introduced to all the local marine life. I think Bruce and Josh enjoyed the tour of local catchable fish... still hoping to catch one of their own. The feeding of the sharks was a bit of fun and Emily definitely got the best photos there.
After lunch we headed out to Shell beach which is an amazing and unique piece of this country of ours. It is a 60km stretch of coast where a species of cockle thrive in the high salinity and have no predators. The beach is made of billions of tiny cockle shells 8-10 m deep!!
It was a lovely afternoon of building shell castles, getting wet in our clothes (we thought it would be too cold to swim) and lying about in the sun.
There is a definite focus on fishing in the area and today was the day to give the squid by the pier a go... The photo below is not a great one but does reflect the deflated hearts and hopes of the boys in our family.
Bruce has returned to the pier tonight to try again...

Josh leaving Kalbarri - Day 17

We have spent the last two days camped by the Murchison River. We have explored lots of gorges. We climbed down the Ross Graham Gorge and explored the river and lots of rocks. We climbed a huge cube shaped rock.
We also went to Natures Window which was a 700m rocky and rough walk down from the car park. Abigail also commented when we got to Nature's Window, "Where is Nature?" then she said "where does Nature have her breakfast?" that was when mum said that maybe Nature ate breakfast at the rock table she was sitting on.
We also gave the river Bream a good feed of prawns from our rods in the afternoon.

Katherine in Kalbarri

Yesterday we woke to a beautiful sunrise at Coronation Beach. If coming this way it is an ideal spot to spend a few days and only $15 a night. The sunset was spectacular. Oliver had his first attempt at fishing with a bit of style too.
We arrived in Kalbarri yesterday and enjoyed the coastal views on the way in. We are staying at a 350000 acre homestead on the Murchison river. A beautiful spot where we can have a campfire too.
We did a bit of exploring in the afternoon and enjoyed some great views.
More exploring to be done today !!

Emily@Cervantes

Day12 we left Perth and arrived in Cervantes. We drove out to Nambung National Park and saw millions and millions of big and small pinnacles. Some of them even looked like houses with letter boxes.
The caravan park we are staying at has a fun playground,right next to the water. It's been lots of fun to play on.

Katherine in Perth without a car...

We made it safely to Perth by tow truck on Saturday and our car was towed Monday morning to the 4wd workshop.
We are staying with my cousin and her family. They found us a new car- not sure it will get us any further than our one. (see below).
The house we are staying in is total boy heaven- Oliver is in his element with nerf guns and a raised cubby you can tie ropes off. This morning the kids have found the dress-up box...
Hoping to have use of the car to explore soon.