Osprey Bay Exmouth WA next 2 weeks NO water/Electrcity
Osprey Bay is situated in the Cape Ranges in Exmouth and we have been here before and liked it PLUS tis only $7 a night ! The first day we met all other campers at the daily traditional Happy Hour and the evening flowed quite pleasantly ,after the session we returned to base, got the chairs out and lay back marvelling at the Milky Way. In the distance I could see a faint orangey glow and eventually we witnessed the rising of the moon!! And it was a brilliant spectacle and once again the complete darkness was lit up by sheer moon light alone!!Bed and the wind got up and it was a howler! We thought the awning was going to be ripped off BUT we had secured the Guy Ropes and amazingly they held everything in place.
Day 2 we visited a few beauty spots and took the car over very rough terrain to view Gorges in the area The campsite organizers Karl and Bernadette are lovely people who attempted to get our TV going, but to no avail SO we will take the whole setup in Exmouth in the hope we can fix it !!We drove 4 wheeled to the entrance of Mundu Mundu Gorge and because of the heat we gace the walk/climb a miss !!
Day 3 and we drove off to our nearest dump point 13 kms away and took some pics around Yardie Creek Gorges ( we toured this place last time we were here 3 yrs ago) Back to base then another Ocean Dip and it is VERY refreshing This time around Annie used the noodles Last night one of the lovely campers came over and offered us her hard drive to watch movies ,she had heard about ours stuffing up How nice is that? Next few days were spent idling in the sea and Annie is getting very confident in the rubber canoe!
Wednesday we did the round trip of 150 kms into Exmouth getting scripts and replenishing supplies .To get the scripts we had to go to the hospital and do it thru the doctors there! Exmouth has a pop of around 3000 but only 3 doctor’s service this area and they are all based at the Hospital!! We paid a visit to the satellite TV man and went thru various paces on how to set up. What can I say except it still doesn’t work !! I honestly think we are on top of some iron ore mother lode!!.Night time fell and we were treated to a fantastic storm lightening sky that was way off in the distance Very reminiscent of the Day of the Triffids movie!!I wasn’t feeling the best and had to retire to my bed. The wind became very strong and we had such a downpour (the like I haven’t heard before ) that lasted around 10 mins and the rest of the evening remained very calm !
SUCCESS!!! WE SAT OUT SIDE WITH CHAIRS EITHER SIDE OF THE SATELITTE DISH WENT THRU ALL INSTRUCTIONS METHODICALLY AND YAHHHOOOOO !! WE HAVE A WORKING TELLY!!
Sad you lost your Rod Geoff
Oh Dear !!
Humble apologies to all my DSC friends who contributed to my farewell gift of a fishing rod !! Today we tested it out,I cast into the pristine turquoise coloured Indian Ocean, lay my rod 2 metres from the cliff edge to get a towel from my bucket and the rod FLEW into the air, not getting trapped in the craggy cliffs and the last we saw it was heading towards the Horizon in a very quick fashion !! No chance of retrieval so? Goodbye purpose bought pink fishing rod ! .Walking along the coast in the hope it may have washed ashore we spotted very large fish about a metre long and 3 metres off shore swimming merrily along its way The happy hour session turned out to be hilarious due to my misfortune and people were asking me about the event as the story had spread quicker than anything ole Ena Sharples could have put about!!
Sad you lost your Rod Geoff
Watch me play Didgeridoo
Geoffs Life After Work ! 