Hello all!
After 8 hours (pitstop included) we arrived in Tom Price. We stopped at the grocery shop to get some supplies for the next 3 days. Five of us planned to stay only 2 days but I planned to stay until Saturday.
We arrived in Karijini national park at nightfall. The camp was very basic. It was just a place with dry toilets and barbecues (believe me or not, in Australia barbies take precedence over anything else). Bound to be, we ate sausages et burgers.
I almost freaked out at the arrival. As there was not enough room in the cars to fit all the bags, someone in the group thought I had packed my daily backpack with enough clothes and decided to leave my big backpack in the rental car with my tent and sleeping bag (sure thing, next time I will make sure to have all my stuff with me). Every cloud has a silver lining, I could slept in the 5 person foldable tent on the roof of one of the two cars (we rented one SUV and one 4WD with camping gear). To cheer myself up I enjoyed half of a sleeping bag as well 😉
There are really nice places within this park. We walked through 6 small treks and hiked the 1234 m of the Mt Bruce on the last day. The red colors of the canyons are amazing!
On the way back there were 5 of is left, five others had left the day before. We had to return the car by noon on Saturday so we decided to hit the road on Friday by the end of the afternoon and find a place outside the national park to save some time and avoid driving overnight. With the camping gear we could prepared noodles with vegetables this evening (THE backpacker meal 🙂 ). After a short night, we woke up at 4 am. Sandra drove for 1 hour and I replaced her for the rest of the trip. In the end, we arrived in Exmouth earlier than expected.
We stayed 2 nights in the same camping that we had stayed in Exmouth before. Sunday was a great opportunity for rest and relaxation, we even had a coffee with pastries at the bakery with Marion in the morning (so cool!). I really needed to recuperate after the three freezing nights in Karijini.
On monday we had booked 2 dives in the “Navy Pier” at the north of Exmouth. It’s a jetty owned by the army. Underneath you can observe a wide range of fish species. We dived 13m and had the chance to sea a reef shark 1.5m long just 2m next to us (you know what, he didn’t even pay us attention, he was so relax, so aussie :-p)
The next day, Julie booked a car so we could visit the Cap Range national park. The car was a compact car. It was so complicated to fit everything inside and we looked so ridiculous 🙂 We stayed 2 nights at the edge of the park in a small camping. We stopped at almost every beach on the way and did the badjirrajirra trek on Wednesday before to return the car.
As I’m writing, we just left Exmouth and are now on the bus to Broome (a 16 hours trip). The plan so far is to stay there for 1 or 2 days and to try to find a lift to Kununurra or straight away to Darwin. Next I’ll have to find a job as I plunked down more than expected on activities.
I’ll try to find a map to place on my blog so you can follow my whereabouts.
See you soon!
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