Updated from Yardie Creek Ningaloo Reef WA
Bright and early today Annie cooked a HUGE breakfast after all, it IS our first wedding Anniversary!! Went for a boat cruise along the Yardie Creek Gorges..Scenery absolutely brilliant (have a look at the Photos),Back to base..this place is great, after re organizing our Motor Home & an afternoon nanna nap we went along to the nightly happy hour session. A couple from New Zealand provided the entertainment and we sang along to the music they made…. Fantastic night!! Annie an me were invited to a Motorhome owned by Butch & his missus Jay for supper. The conversation was quite stimulating with Butch being a Pastor !! & me an Atheist !! Very Windy night !!seems very eerie at 3 am in complete darkness having a pee in the nudie !!! but it works FOUR days now without contact with the outside world !! ie Internet & Phone !!
This Place is Beautiful !!
We packed up earlish and left for Cape Range National Park on the Ningaloo Reef line I cheekily asked if any reductions for pensioners !! There is !! reduced from $12 nightly to $5 !! what a bonus !
We were given a Bay 20 metres from the sea!! The scenery is magnificent SO much we have decided to stay extra days .WE aer advised by the camp Ranger Happy time is held at 5 pm & it was great ! around a dozen people attended all with different stories to tell Even wild Kangaroos came inquisitevly close enought to have their pic taken !! Needless to see I got a little tipsy on Cider !! and the night was rather windy I was pleased with me & Anns effort at securing the Satelite dish!!! Watching TV in the middle of the outback is very interesting (Didnt want to miss Doc Martin !!)
Saturday 17/07/2010
Almost a week now and we havent killed each other yet !!Sad news today a good friend of mines mum passed away She was a lovely lady……. probably out of touch now we going Bush (no Power) stay tuned Geoff n Annie xx
More updates Pics will follow soon
spent the day discovering Exmouth coast .saw a wrecked ship and a bonus was a pod of whales leaping about !! Naturally I didn’t have a camera !! Invested in a bit of luxury & bought a TV satellite dish so that we can view TV anywhere in Oz The bloke we bought it off was great & he set it up for us I actually know how to use a compass now ( setting the satellite up) as we were waiting a bloody big Emu ‘strolled’ by !! Annie fed it some bread..Evening saw us visiting the local RSL club Sadly only a handful of people there, BUT great conversationalist ! Tomorrow we travel around the Exmouth Peninsula reef. Pictures will follow when we get internet access … Geoff n Annie
It just gets better every day
Up early around 8.30 ish and off to Carnarvon at this ppoint I thought my medication script had not been issued More later …We drove on to a Filling Station known as The Overlander !! bit of breakfast & a brew Fill up Diesel and away we go to Carnarvon !! Afte finding the Hospital and filling in numerous forms for my script mentioned earlier I found the Medication needed in my Tablet Box…Red faced I humbly apologises to the Triage nurse & Receptionist who had a giggle at my expese Then off to local supermarket for food stocks ( I hate parking the Big Bus in car parks) a very short look ar Carnarvon ( my fault ) and we headed towards Coral Bay & presently parked in a freebie named Minila River Campsite ) Tea will be BBQ outside the bus made on portable Gas stove !!
Here we go, here we go, here we go !!!
Although we slept for 3 days away from our usual bed (yes in our Motorhome parked outside the house) we have finally set off !! All our household stuff packed into storage House on the Rental Market Initial troubles we couldn’t find how to put air into our overloaded home ( Annie had spent most of yesterday working her arse off to get our Caversham home ready for rental) After a fry up brekkywe sat and discussed the problem .SOLVED !! a simple wheelbrace allowes acess to the tyre air valves …THEN other side ofGin we thought e had left paper work behind !!we started to drive back to Perth & discovered the paperwork in folder!! So far we aredoing great Next stop Kalbarrie Gallean Bridge overnight stay. It was well occupied and we duly parked alongsidw theMurchison River ( a freebie) first test using BUS power had us watching a DVD in the bus after dark & was a great success !! Views around the river were nice BED at 8 pm we we knackered ~~~~!!! Onto Day 2
Watch me play Didgeridoo
Geoffs Life After Work ! 