Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Carnarvon for a Couple of Nights

Yesterday was our last day in Denham. We headed out to Monkey Mia to go crabbing one last time and were happy to come home with 21 good sized ones-so were Beatty, John and Jan and Brice who all got a few each. North of Carnarvon the blue crabs stop and we won't be going to mud crab territory this year.

Russ packed up the boat and trailer while I cooked and picked crabs, then I made a potato salad for dinner. I used 3 of our beautiful smoked tailor filets in it and it was yummy. It was to share at a final BBQ with our neighbours Beatty and Charlie (Mutard), their friends Mary Jane and Alex, John and Jan, Ron, Carmel and Craig and Brice and Wendy. It was a really fun night.

It was sad saying goodbye to everyone this morning. I don't think we've ever had so many people turn out to see us off. We left around 10 and stopped once for our lunch (fresh bread and crab sandwiches) then arrived in Carnarvon around 2.30.

It was a lovely drive out of Denham to the highway then on to Carnarvon. It's the third time we've done it in two years and this time was the best. There has been lots and lots of rain recently, so lots of water around still, lots of new greenery and wild flowers already. We saw lots of varieties of everlasting daisies.

After quickly setting up, we headed to Woolworths for a much needed big shop. Tomorrow we'll do our usual trip around the North and South River Roads to pick up our fresh fruit, veg and herbs. We had an easy tea of sausages and leftover salad and were just settling down to watch a bit of TV when the lights went out for a couple of hours. It happened about 3 nights ago in Denham too.

Thursday we are going on to Exmouth, then out to Yardie Creek Station Caravan Park for a few weeks.

1 comment:

Natalie Que said...

Wow! You are quite the blogger and adventurer! Good on 'ya, as you all say here! You truly must lead an amazing life.

Dolphins, that would be my life's dream to interact with dolphins! Sign me up!