6.45am
27 degrees, clear sky and light breeze. The water is still a long way out.
7am
and the wind is back from the ESE. Don’t think we will be spending ‘days at the
beach’ if this wind doesn’t settle.
Packed
up and drove over to use the dump point. Fran and Richard came back with their
truck to get some more goats. I chatted with her about the goats. They have
been her for 14 years. They had a sheep station in Merridan – her father had
sheep and her siblings have got sheep around Merridan too. The goats are sold
on the domestic market – the meat very popular with the Mediterranean and
Indian people. They also have fat-tailed sheep, grown for their meat not their
wool. They sell them overseas to Mediterranean and Malaysian markets. The
droughts over east have made their mutton sort after in WA now. She said they
get a lot of fisherman here for the winter who stay for months and have been
coming for years. I commented about the wind and heat and she said it is 10
degrees hotter at the station but they have a concrete tank that they use as
their spa pool. The Overlander Roadhouse is the hottest spot in the area and
Denham, the coolest.
A
lady called out from the big fifth-wheeler parked nearby. Her husband had his
hand stuck in the awning arms. We all ran over and Steve managed to jam a piece
of wood in to prize the awning arms apart and he could get his hand out. He
will have severe bruising but it doesn’t look like anything is broken. They
thanked us very much.
We
said goodbye and headed back out to the highway, passing more goats. Looking
across to their station homestead hidden in the trees.
Crossed
the Wooramel River which has a riverside retreat nearby. Dry river at the
moment.
Red
dirt and low scrub as we continue north with more goats by the road.
Nearing
Boondallia we spotted some cattle near a water tank.
Turned
off onto a corrugated road down to New Beach and Bush Bay. It is managed by
Carnarvon Shire so is a bit cheaper and there are no facilities other than a
couple of dump points.
Drove
down to New Beach first. Two vans were parked out in the middle of the salt
bushes well back from a line trees on the foreshore. We drove to the end where
the water goes into trees, sort of mangrove –like.
We
went back and around to Bush Beach campground where three other vans were
parked. Checked out a big whale bone.
Chose
a spot on some hard red road base, hoping we won’t get blasted by too much sand
in this wind. Tide is well out.
A
few willy willies zoomed around us, will be a mess if one hits us as all the
windows and vents are open. Put the awning out short so it can cope with the
wind and keep the afternoon sun of us.
Had
lunch, 35 degrees.
I
continued with my blog while Steve read.
The
wind swung around to the south-west and it cooled off immediately. 2pm down to
30 degrees.
Had
a cuppa and played some Dice, too windy for cards, while my laptop charged.
Did
another couple of days with the wind whistling around the van. Didn’t get hit
by any willy willies which was good.
I
went for a walk along the beach. Not much to see other than dead seagrass and
some fresh stuff just washing in with the incoming tide.
Steve
sat outside for a while with the flies. Sand crabs started to move in and dig
their holes so I gave him the camera.
The
sun set was pretty – Steve’s photos. Funny how the sun is bent out of shape.
Dark
clouds are building up in the north-east. BOM said there was a change of a
storm.
8pm
the wind just stopped.
Started
up again but only lightly as we went to bed so we could hear the waves lapping
the beach.
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