Tuesday...29 June

Ok so today was a lazy type day. Someone who went fishing yesterday was not overly energetic  and took extra time to get out of the starting blocks today. Honestly, turtles move faster! Once up and  moving we walked to the shops and wandered around just seeing what they had, bought a couple more tent pegs for the annexe mat, and strolled home again. After lunch we drove out to turquoise bay, although came close to not bothering when we had to pay to go into a national park, but as it was only $11 we paid up and continued on our way. Am of the opinion that the blessed tourists should be charged and us aussies should get free passage into our own national parks. Definately a pretty spot, and blow me down there were crazy people snorkelling in the water, in the middle of winter no less. Just cause the temp was over 20 does not mean one should lose sight of the fact that it is winter after all!!!! On the way back we pulled into the Exmouth lighthouse and watched the whales frolicking in the bay. (Kept saying in Kalbarri that all I had to do was move north to see them.) Drove past the Learmonth Airforce Base and the Harold E Holt naval communications base, nice to see the show of force in the north. I believe the comms base is mainly for our submarine fleet. There is a series of communications towers out there (13) that are super super low frequency transmitters which once upon a time were vital to NATO submarine communications. These days satellite is used but the station here is maintained in case of necessity. Visible offshore is several oil and gas drilling platforms too. So ok, probably no blog tomorrow night as we move on tomorrow and are spending the night in a wayside stop again which usually means no mobile coverage and this also translates to no internet,,,,Will blog again as soon as am able.