Thursday September 4

Just another fine day in paradise!

Today we moved up the line to Kurrajong, another of the fine camping areas in the Cape Range National Park. This turned out to be fairly drawn out procedure, firstly the queue at the park gate had to be attended to then our host was able to transfer us from there to here and we were able to pay our money for the extra day. On the way we stopped at Mandu Mandu Gorge and I went for a walk, it was much too difficult for Elsine to even attempt so she stayed in the van and did things. The first part of the walk was over the dry rock strewn creek bed which was fairly hard going. Then I started climbing and when I had climbed I went down and repeated this about 5 times before getting back to the car park. It was a good walk through a gorge with high cliff walls then along the top of the cliffs. Unfortunately no animals although we did see some during the day as we drove around. Eventually we settled down in our new campsite. 

Friday September 5

Another day another move, this time to Mesa camp which is a little bit further north than the last one. So far my favourite camp in the Cape Range National Park is Kurrajong., however Elaine's was Yardie. The system here is a bit unusual in that most bookings are by internet so you book and arrive, but you can just come to the gate and if there are empty spots pay and settle in. If you want to stay longer than your booking you have to hope that there are spare spots, this means waiting each day until the people queued up at the gate are dealt with then taking whatever is left, which often means moving, sometimes within the camp, sometimes to a new camp. Supposedly tenancy gives you some extra rights but doesn't guarantee success. Did that make sense? If it did please explain to me, but it does seem to work. This whole area which is the west side of a North West Cape is a really nice area and well worth an extended visit to these camps which are spread over about 40km of the coastline. 
After settling in to our new campsite we checked the beach out and busied ourselves doing very little. Later we had a swim then joined the other campers here for a sundowner on the dunes overlooking the shore.