With a forecast of strong winds, we still decided to head on south as planned and were soon on the road and fareweled Exmouth and headed out along the Minilya-Exmouth Road. We were intrigued by the prominent termite mounds, some up to five or six feet tall that towered over the low bushy landscape that stretched for kilometres along the road. We were fortunate to be travelling in Western Australia at this particular time of the year, being late winter approaching early spring with the onset of the wildflower season. Roo was keen to get some pics so we stopped at a random spot on the side of the road, got some pics and were soon on our way. About 20 minutes later, Roo suddenly realises that her glasses were missing! Funny enough, when Roo had got out of the car at the photo spot, she thought something had dropped out of the car. Even Jess said "Did you just drop something Mum?" As Roo could not see anything on the ground (any wonder as she did not have her glasses on), we continued on! Sooo... we decided to backtrack around 30km or so to see if we could find the exact spot. I thought we had a very |
After getting over the finding of the glasses, we stopped by at Coral Bay, a quaint and popular small beachside town as it is a place with coral gardens to explore just metres off the shore of the sandy white beaches. Roo could not resist another swim seeing lots of different fish but less volume than had been experienced at Turquoise Bay, near Exmouth but still fun to explore! As the water temperature was a lot cooler than experienced at Exmouth, it was a shorter swim and we got on our way to our next destination, known as the fruit bowl of Western Australia, of Carnarvon.
Arriving at Carnavon soon reminded us that yes, it still really was winter as it was way cooler with a fresh wind blowing in off the sea. As we got in a little late, we had a very quick drive around town just on sunset before settling in for the night.