Tuesday we left Barradale, and headed straight to Coral Bay. Had a bit of lunch, and a wander around before making the trip in to Worroora (pronounced Warra) Station. So, we’ve been here since then, and are camped right on the beach with Craig and Dale (we’re about 10m from the water, so Matt tells me) and it’s windy all the time, but it’s bloody beautiful! Warroora is on the coast (obviously!), and is part of the Ningaloo Marine Park, WA’s answer to the Great Barrier Reef. You can see the actual reef all the way along the coast from the beach, I’d guess it’s about anywhere from 500m to 1k out from the shore. The water is a beautiful aqua colour (you’ll see in the many photos!), not super cold but just nicely so.
Matt and Craig threw a line in almost as soon as we got here (boys and fishing, pft!), Matt ended up pulling in a Milkfish (we didn’t know that at the time, someone told us the next day what it was), but threw it back. Craig and Dale found some corrugated iron, so we’ve had a couple of raging fires so far which has been quite good with all this wind. Wednesday we went to Sandy Point (on the station) for the boys to do some fishing. Craig caught the first fish, a little black thing, threw that back, then Matt caught a Golden Trevelly. We were all stoked, most of all Matt, probably because I always give him such a hard time about not catching any fish! We had planned on having the fish for entrée to our roast dinner that night, but we ended up having fish and rustic chips last night, and it was absolutely delicious!
Yesterday, we had a bit more of an explore around the coastline. I think at the furthest point away from where we’re camped, Matt said it was about 32k’s as the crow flies. There’s heaps of stations right on the coast along here, like here and Quobba, that Matt and I have found really unusual. Nothing like this on the east coast. So, we went to a couple of beaches along the coast yesterday, did some swimming and snorkelling, and drove right to the other end of the station. Just in the one day we saw goats, sheep, emu’s and kangaroosters, and Jack stared at all of them, so funny! He even had a bark and a bit of a wimper at the goats when Matt stopped to get him to have a look at them, then tried to jump out of the window and chase them. The little bugger… He’s been in his element here though, it’s the first time he’s been off the lead for this long in ages. He’s even turned into “the great crab hunter”, chasing all the little crabs along the shore and pushing them with his nose when he catches up to them. He’s loving it!
The wind has been blowing pretty much constantly since we got here, the first night we were ready to move over behind the dunes, but we’ve kinda got used to it now, and it hasn’t been as bad as the first night again (thank god!). We’re booked in here for the week ($50 for both of us for the week, how cheap is that?!), Craig and Dale leave to go home next Tuesday I think, so we’ll make the decision then whether to leave with them, or stay an extra couple of nights before we invade Jen and Phill back at Cape Burney again on our way back to Perth. It’s been pretty great so far, especially the rest day today. I think I’ll definitely have to have a nanna nap this afternoon…
