First a progress report on Elaine, today was reasonably good but the pain is back tonight, just not as bad as it has been. The morning is always hard (getting everything working in the cold) and she did not do anything to aggravate it today. So fingers crossed that it will keep improving.

This mornings walk was about 4.5 km, but felt like a lot more than that, from the campsite to Hammersly Beach via the picnic area. This is my favourite sort of walk through bushland on a narrow well defined and marked track with occasional vistas over the inlet then the beach. At the start of the walk there was a set of stairs, not as much as Jacobs Ladder but extensive and just a starter. The walk was continually up hill then down into hollows, some with steps some without, over the dunes.So at the end I felt that I had done a weeks exercise but it was worth it for some great views of the whole inlet, which is huge, and the beach. The inlet is blocked off from the sea by a substantial sand bar which had quite big waves breaking on it and the rocks in the middle of it, so no entry for seagoing boats. I heard lots of birds but most of them were fairly shy.

Hakea is the resident flower here and is abundant and rather speccie. We left after breakfast (about 10.30!) the camp and took the scenic drive calling at the various beachs and camera opportunities. There is a lot of these and we were treated to some magnificent scenery most of it from high hills. This national park is definitely a well hidden secret, maybe not, but I hadn't heard much about and just chose it because the WA tourism site said it was nice, understatement it is very spectacular (I know I use this word a lot, mainly because it applies to a lot of the places that we see). The scenery is bushland on rolling, high, hills and and clifftop ocean views. It is not wildflower season, but there is lots to see, the season must be beautiful.

Tonight we are camped at the other site on the eastern side of the park, the Four Mile Beach Campground.