We drove from Broome to Pardoo Station - a working station just north of Port Hedland. We had to drive down 13km of fairly bumpy dirt road to get there and the car, van and bikes on the back all got covered in red dusty dirt. The station has around 80km of ocean frontage which we went to have a look at the next morning. We were quite surprised at how beautiful and unusual the beachfront was. There were thousands of very white, unbroken shells up in the rocks. The kids also had a lot of fun spotting crabs.
The tide was out a long way, and Tara decide she'd try to walk out to the ocean.
The boys were very excited to see a beach volleyball court at the station.
We had another long day in the car the next day before stopping at Robe River rest area. It was quite a nice spot for a rest area, and one of the few rivers we'd seen with water in it for a while. The sunset was quite beautiful.
The next morning we woke up to find we had a flat tyre on the caravan. I got the boys to do a bit of schoolwork while Darren changed the tyre.
I'm a bit over the red dirt out here. It gets into everything. I couldn't believe the colour of Brodie's feet!
Our next stop was Cape Range National Park near Exmouth. There are limited camping spots at beaches along the national park and we were told we were lucky to get a spot. At peak times, campers are lined up early in the morning to try and get in. The days are still very warm, but the nights are getting cooler which is nice.
Casey found what we assumed was a snake skeleton in the sand dunes.
We were all excited to have two emus wander through our campsite. It's the first time we've seen emus for the whole trip.
The waves broke a long way out from the shore because of the coral reef. Darren took the kids out one at a time to swim out around the reef with their goggles on to look at the fish.
The colour of the water was quite spectacular.
On the way out of town, we saw two emus in the main street, and then another emu and her two babies crossed the highway.
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