Wednesday, 13 August 2014

Somehow 2 posts are missing, the last post dated Sarurday was actually Sunday and Mondays & Tuesdays posts are missing. So I will try to incorporate them into this post. 
Monday morning started with a walk around the caravan park and I was quite intrigued by the number of vans that it accommodates, something over the 100 which, even after running costs would be a nice addition to the station income. The station is 43000 hectares and runs about 8000 head of cattle for the live export market and this caravan park has been in existence for about 27 years. The park is absolute beachfront, of which the station has 82 kms. Later in the day we went down for a swim to find that the tide was out and the beach had become a rocky reef. Tuesday morning I took my walk along the beach and came across some absolutely spectacular rock formations, good enough that I went back to the van, got the camera, then went back and took lots of photographs. Around 10am, the usual vacate you parking spot time we took off, braved the rough road and, once more, headed south. 
Our camp for Tuesday was the Stanley 24 hr Rest area. We were the 5th van in, but by nightfall that number had swelled to 25. These rest areas since Kununnurra are rather good, consisting of a flattened area part bitumen and part gravel, ablutions, dump point and gazebos provided by main roads and we presume maintained by the local shires. 
From the Stanley rest area we continued south, again turning of the main road onto an unsealed road. This one was reasonable and led us to the Eighty Mile Beach Caravan Park which, strangely enough is situated on the Eighty Mile Beach. We will probably stay here for a day or two, so more later my fingered are getting tired. 

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