Kalbarri

We arrived in Kalbarri with plenty of time to set up camp and have a little look around before sundown. The weather was comfortably cooler making sleeping easier and the main criterion for a good camp was wind shelter, not shade. I settled in to do some work and the kids entertained themselves with the pelican feeding and trying to catch fish.

From Kalbarri

The first two nights were unsuccessful but a fellow camper told us about good bream which lurk under the lobster boats moored at the nearby jetty, and offered us the use of his little tinny to try to catch them. Bro and Fabian came out with me late that night and we snuck around the boats in the still night, throwing lures and baits - aiming for the fish but Fabian managed to land a lot on the deck of lobster boats. I hooked a couple of little bream on squid and we were ready to head home when Bro hooked a better one on a lure, which he landed. We kept fishing until after midnight and saw some big bream following the lures but no more were hooked. Still, we had a meal of them.

The town of Kalbarri is in the middle of a large National Park, which we really hadn't seen, so on the way out, we visited Nature's Window - a natural arch high above the gorge of the Murchison River.

From Kalbarri

The walk was short but we didn't feel like the longer loop walk in the heat.
That night, we camped at a rest area - it's good to be away from caravan parks sometimes, although Maggie's sleep was disturbed by the trucks in the night.