Day 7 Thursday 26/7/18



Day 7 Thursday 26/7/18

The day after the big day and I ache all over and have some bruising...but feel great.

Had booked on the Yardie Creek Boat tour today, about 90 minutes drive from Exmouth on the other side of the peninsula.

Left Motel about 9am, quick stop at the 3 Islands Whale Shark Dive Tour offices in down town Exmouth to pick up our complimentary pictures then off around the top of the peninsula, down into the Cape Range National Park and on to Yardie Creek.
Local Dingo wandering along the road
Although only about 40 minutes the boat cruise was excellent and the owner an absolute mine of local information. He came to the area in the 1960’s with his parents when there were only about 16 people in what was to become Exmouth.

His father setup the first caravan park at Vlamingh Head. The population grew enormously when the USA and Australian built a jointly operated listening station, originally known as North West Cape but now the Harold E Holt Naval Communication Station.


Yardie Creek sand bar -  blocking the creek from the ocean

Yandie Creek has a lot of bird life...will need to get input as what this bird is??

Black footed Rock Wallabies live in some precarious locations

Black footed Rock Wallabies move about easily around the ledges.


Heron we believe??  Will need to check with our experts.



The Yardie Creek crossing didn't look to difficult but the Outlander probably wouldn't survive the approach
 
After the cruise we went back to Turquoise Bay for lunch (having bought some salad rolls in Exmouth (There is no water or food available after you pass Vlamingh Caravan Park.)
Turquoise Bay - beautiful but the water was to cold to snorkel...what a shame!!
A very popular spot


























From here we visited the Mangrove beach bird hide, and they were right, the birds were all hiding, some nice person had drawn them all on the wall for use though so all was not wasted.
Near Mangrove Bay bird hide
Bird hiding but nothing to compare it to.....

Aha...there's a bird ...now where are those lovely pictures now!













Visited the Turtle hatching grounds, no turtles as it is the wrong time of the year and then the submarine statue at the Harold Holt Communications Station before returning to the motel for a relax as we have a big day tomorrow to get to Kalbarri.  It will be around 700kms.


Sculpture outside Communications Station

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