I Found this lovely fellow when I went to the toilet this morning.
Oh I forgot to tell you in yesterday’s blog that at Willie Creek Pearl Farm tour, I was the model to show off a necklace of large white pearls…….value circa $35,000.00…….didn’t really like them as much as a smaller pearl necklace!!!!
Tony arrives back after 9:00am with a big grin……..one of the young apprentices has fixed the problem. We tell him our problem has returned and he just laughs!!! So he hooks up and we move off to the Cape Leveque road. Approx 14 klm is tarred then it is a stop to let down our tyres for the sand. This road has only been recently reopened after the heavy rains of last week.
We stop and render assistance, by way of Tony providing printed instructions on how to use your car batteries to provide a welding power source……their trailer’s drawbar had collapsed.
Numerous vehicles “fly” past us, in some cases at a 30 to 40 degree angle as their vehicle’s wheel are up the roadside bank. The road level is up to a metre or more below the surrounding landscape, and would become a river in heavy rain, as in most areas there is very little opportunity for run-off.
We get back onto the tar, which is big relief from the sand and the corrugations. The left hand side of the tar is stained dark red, where as the right hand side was a clear whitish colour. We hit the turn-off to Middle Lagoon, which is back to sand………much narrower but not as corrugated. Each time we have stopped the crockery drawer has slid open..and been re-shut.
We arrive at Middle Lagoon, around 1:30pm and set up up in our allocated lot…….small trees to negotiate, large tyre ruts to negotiate and bare uneven ground AND VERY VERY HOT …...not real impressed to start with.
Time to set-up and see what the inside of the van reveals……. we encounter a crockery drawer [large] is fully out on an angle, still with contents in and the en-suite door bracket has pulled out of door and [2] foot locks have failed. Later I discover oven door has come off its hinge..right hand side, , snapped screw in fridge surround. Tony is able to come to the rescue and reinsert the door hinge correctly. Our frustrations with this van and off-roading continue to escalate.
Michael sets up the awning with my help and then the shade sail into the awning, as well as external flooring on the red sand. The shade extension is definitely needed as it is getting very warm to us, and with no power no air conditioning, unless we pull out the generator.
It is too hot to eat lunch, so we bypass lunch and after setup the four of us head to the beach for a look. Middle Lagoon consists of a large cove with a wide sandy beach, shell drifts and rocky outcrops at each end of the cove, as well as a creek entering the sea. On the other side of the rocky point there is a smaller cove. We have been told there are no crocodiles and it is safe to swim………Tony informs us from his local knowledge of earlier visits to Middle Lagoon, that Malcolm Douglas captured his biggest ever crocodile in the creek that enters the cove. We see people swimming and also standing waist deep fishing.
The cliff top is packed out with vans and some tents…..there are more here than at the Broome caravan park. There are also provided accommodation units, basically 4 posts under tin roof with walls of shade mesh….a number are in use.
The cliff top is the viewing spot for sunset…..more cloud so do not see sun going down, however, brilliant pink clouds after sun has set.
Michael enjoys a hearty dinner, especially after no lunch.
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