Tuesday 30th September 2014

I know it is Wednesday morning and this should have been done last night, I will go stand in the corner for 5 secs as punishment!

We woke up parked, as I said, so close to the beach that we had to check and make sure that we hadn't been eroded and dropped into the ocean overnight. Chris and Kim were packing up to head home but there was no hurry for us to leave. So I went for my usual walk along the beach and marvelled at the huge trees that, due to the aforesaid erosion had fallen onto the beach. The beach shacks here, and some are fairly serious homes, are on a lease that runs out in 2016 and the owners have been advised that they won't be renewed so they have been offered land in the nearby development at beneficial prices. This is ok except for a few people who actually had lifetime leases, these are going to be cancelled in 2016 and again they have been offered land. This also is ok except that these people, or some of them, have spent money setting their homes up as permanent residences and are retirees who now have to find the money to build a new house and demolish the old one, that isn't really very fair!

Late morning we completed our tidy up and jobs and hit the road. We have both been to Geraldton recently so we drove through and on down to Dongara. This is pretty countryside with green farms, trees etc and on reaching so Dongara there is a top drawer pie shop, naturally we stopped and indulged. We also bought their nice vanilla slices which we part ate for afternoon tea, I saved the rest of mine  for morning tea this morning, but Elaine ate hers last night 

After passing through Dongara we turned on to the Indian Ocean Drive which runs down the coast to home and is really nice drive. We stopped about 60 kms down the road at a spot called Point Louise, obviously named after our sister in law Louise. We will stay here today as the temperature is predicted to go above 30 and we can swim here.