For this weekend, we have prepared a decent trip. This time we're going away for two days, so the first time we try our tent and sleeping bags, we'll sleep in the camp. Our plan is already clear. In the morning we start as soon as possible, we need to make 230 km to the Lesueur National Park, but we might stop at some nice views. In the park we will make a few kilometers round and in the evening we'll stay in the town of Jurien Bay, where we spend the night in the camp. On Sunday we plan to go for two hours to swim with sea lions and I'm really terribly looking forward to, and then on the way home to see Pinnacle Desert. Well, so much the general plan, and off we go.
Since we're going for a longer trip, the preparation and packing things corresponds to that. We have almost full trunk - tent, sleeping bags, air beds and clothing. To this also the portable fridge with food, plenty of water we're ready to go. The road goes along the ocean, so it should be quite pleasant, at least I hope. We set off at about half past eight, and as we don't have such a long way in front of us as the other day, we should have no problems to make it on time Travelling was very nice, the road was wide enough and did not have a lot of curves, so we went pretty fast. Everywhere around us are small yellow flowers bloomed, so it seemed like we went through a big yellow flowered fields. From time to time we can see the ocean, there are no hills around so no great lookout anywhere. But before we arrived to Jurien Bay, however, we managed to find one observation deck, from where we had a wonderful view of the entire surroundings.
What is interesting here are the sand dunes along the way. As I said, everything is green, the flowers bloom, but then out of nowhere emerges a huge mass of wispy white sand to create a huge dune. There are even signs, in case of strong wind on the road visibility is very limited. And, as I wrote elsewhere, this is dangerous for car and also kangaroos. All the way, we encountered killed kangaroos lying along the road. I'd say they clean the road from time to time, but there will be probably a lot of accidents and a number of dead animals along the road will be growing. At least some of them are in one piece, but the others are not quite that pretty. One we saw in the tragicomic position - first clean cut of a head and than the body a few meters away. Truly, this tour is not for the weak people. Sometimes it is better to have a lunch at the parking lot and not while driving, one can be easily surprised.
We arrived at Jurien Bay some time before lunch and so we just went to camp to book a place. The receptionist was quite nice, it did not last long and we got a small camp plan with marked point where our tent should be. One thing off the list, we do not have to stress in the evening after hiking, so it's better. So we've also decided to book a boat trip for tomorrow's dive at the small island inhabited by seal lions with whom we could swim. The travel agency was very nice, happy to explain everything to us, but for the money what this fun costs us they should probably bring us there on their hands. But apparently it is a unique and memorable experience to swim with seal lions just in the sea, I can not wait.
All done and I finally we're off to national park, which is located about a half hour drive outside of town. Sealed road changes to unsealed after one crossing, but after a few kilometers it turned back to asphalt road and that's the same around the whole park so it's good, at least we won't destroy the car too much. It's very nice here, everything blooms, nice colors, but mostly yellow. But it also has its drawbacks. With the arrival of spring awaken Australian flies that are really very intrusive and disgusting, not at all like in Slovakia. Slovak fly is like an old grandpa sitting on the porch, smoking his pipe, spits and coughs from time to time. But Australian flies are like old women at the market, one shouts over the other, screams and will not stop until she gets what she wants. So these flies are just like that. There are an awful lot of them and are so annoying that it ruined the idyllic moment of countryside views. But we were informed about this aspect, and we have the adequate countermeasures to them. The so-called mosquito nets on the head. This day, although we do not use it, but time will tell that tomorrow my nerves can not stand it and I'll put it on in order to have a piece of mind from those monsters.
The whole park has a Scenic Trail around the park and in the middle of this there is also a hiking path for a few hours on a small hill. From afar it looked worse than it ultimately was. The sun was shining, but the walks was easy and not after a long time we were on top of the hill. Fortunately there was quite a strong wind, which at least partially dispels those nasty flies, especially when man walked, it was much better than when we just sat and looked around. Time slowly passed, but since the hike was not very long, we had no problems to walk around the whole track and in the evening we returned back to camp.
First we decided to put up a tent, check what is where in the camp and how does it look like and then quickly went to the beach to catch the last rays of the sun and enjoy the sunset. The camp is quite nice. There's actually a lot of those small houses, then caravans attached firmly to the ground, then followed by people traveling with caravans, tents with electrical connections and then ultimately the cheapest place only for tents without electricity. And here we are. Toilets and showers are very clean because they are actually used only by people with tents, everyone else either have everything in caravans or lodges. There is also a kitchen with a barbecue like we've seen on the beach, than two kitchen fridges, microwave, kettle and even a TV. We are therefore surprised and satisfied. In the evening we went to the beach to see the sunset and then we grilled only chicken breast for dinner. Portable refrigerator which we have with us has truly proved itself, it seems that refrigerants can keep it in acceptable condition for up to two days, which is kind of ok. We don't even not know how, and it is almost ten in the evening, and it's time to go to bed because we wake up very early in the morning to go to see the sea-lions. So good night;)All photos can be found on:
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