Crabs in Dongara

It’s Sunday and we’re still in Dongara. What a great little place it’s turned out to be! We originally booked for 3 nights, then booked another 3, then this morning, another 3. There are crabs in the harbour (a short walk away) which is the main reason for us extending and our freezer is slowly filling with crab meat to take back to Perth to turn into things for Blair Leah and Todd. There isn’t much in the way of fish in there, but I did get a nice flat head yesterday-he’s going on the barbie tonight.

Dongara is a bit windy and we haven’t had a day we could put the boat in, but it’s a nice park. We have good neighbours Shirley and Don, and although he is just over 80 and she somewhere near, they are very active and lots of fun. It was a surprise to find out Don was over 70 let alone 80! Wednesday the park put on nibbles and this morning a pancake breakfast. It’s a good chance to meet lots of other travellers and hear their tales.

Coleseam National Park


We both really enjoyed a trip out to Coalseam National park about 60ks out of town. They discovered coal there over 100 years ago so hence the name! It's got small gorges, camping and picnic areas and a very pretty dry river bed with fossilised shells along the mud banks. We followed a thunderstorm out there, and copped just enough rain to wash a bit of the red dust of the car and boat and enough lightening to have me wondering if aluminium boats attracted lightening!



Another enjoyable day was spent driving up South Beach, follwed by a lunch and a bit of fishing. We finally gave in though to the wind and tiny fish taking our bait and went back to the jetty to have the same thing happen!

South Beach Dongara