Ningaloo National Park

I continued down the west coast of the peninsula through either or both the Ningaloo NP or the Cape Range NP, eventually reaching Yardie Creek. I walked a little way to see the gorge as well as seeing fruit bats and a wallaby.
The weather was too bad to drive up the side roads into the Cape Range.
On the return journey, I stopped at Turquoise Beach, one of the many white-sand beaches along the coast.
I drove up to the Vlamingh Head Lighthouse but the light was not good and another squall swept in from the sea.
Without a holdall to keep it in place, the gerry-can moved around on the back-shelf which covered two collapsible seats rather a proper boot. It had leaked on to the shelf. I tried to put one of the seat-belts around the can to hold it in place but the belt was too short. So I cut my losses again, donated the petrol in the can to a neighbour who had swum with whale sharks that day, and left the can with the rubbish bins at the Motel. I started to clean the shelf.
A good dinner was again in the Motel's restaurant, and afterwards, I used the laundry.
It was a pity that the weather, the worst so far on the whole trip, had spoilt the visit to Exmouth and the surrounding area but I'd managed to see and do some things.
Start: 16344km. Finish: 16528km. Distance travelled: 184km.Read more