Point Murat

6 May. Day 4.

Exmouth - “Free Day” - Bundegi Beach

Executive decision to do a training ride, so we headed off at 7am. Found a bike trail aptly named the Dingo Trail that took us out to the Harold Holt Communication Base. The Americans built the base in the 1960’s. It’s one of 3 installations globally that facilitate submarine communications anywhere in the world. From a distance, and in photos, is not that impressive. It consists of about 13 towers and a base station. But then you realise that the building is 5 stories high and the towers are over 1000ft high. And there is over 58,000m of cabling involved in the aerial array, and the cable is about as thick as your leg.

We continued on a few hundred metres to Bundegi Beach which has a neat beachside shack cafe. We had an obligatory coffee and then headed back to the caravan park, for a round trip total of 32km.

Had a nice hot shower, did some laundry duties, and then for something completely different we drove back out to Bundegai Beach for brunch! The motivation was to catch up with a couple io Gordy’s surfing mates and their partners. I learnt all about Flite electrically powered surf boards from Bill who currently holds the world record for acumulative distance travelled!
And Murray is about to fit a Boost Fin to his board. It's a mini electric prop that is part of
the centre fun on the board that can give you a boost paddling for a wave or paddling back out to the break. Technology, it’s a wonderful thing!

Anyway, had a very nice nasi goreng for brunch! Followed up with a very refreshing swim with the water temperature being pretty near perfect.

As we were about to leave the car park Gordy wandered over to the fish cleaning bench where a guy was fileting several large Spangled Emperor. Gord scored the skeletons which contained the wings that still have plenty of meat on them. He subsequently grilled them for dinner on the Weber with olive oil, garlic and smidge of mayo. Combined with a salad Judy prepared and a Stella Bella Semillon Sauvignon Blanc compliments of Chris, we consequently dined par excellence!
After doing the dishes it was a relatively early turn as we planned to depart about 7 in the morning.Read more