We took two walks on Saturday. The first was along the Cape to Cape to the south, which took us away from the coast. It was cloudy and we wore our jackets as it was fairly cool.
We’ve been having good weather so far, with nights cool enough to use our warm doona and mostly sunny days. It’s been very windy, which appears to be partly why it hasn’t been hot. It’s now Monday, and quite warm here at Hamelin Bay, thank goodness for air conditioning. We expect it to cool down again in the late afternoon.
In the late afternoon we packed up and went down to the beach near Contos Campground. We stayed in the carpark until about 6.00 p.m. We had views of the ocean, but the sun was pretty glary and we had to have the blind up, so no view that way. The walk down to the beach might be about 500m, not far, and we sat on some rocks to wait for the sunset. The waves were pretty rough and I wouldn’t have gone in for a swim, but there were young people surfing and it appeared to be safe, no obvious rips.
We arrived back at our campsite before dark and found that having left our chairs out had been a good idea in that no one had taken our spot. Although the booking is for a specific section of the campground, we were in Quenda, you don’t book a specific site, so we felt it wasn’t guaranteed. We had to use the ramps to makes us level and it was good to have some light to adjust the ramps.
On Sunday morning we drove down to Hamelin Bay, having made a small stop at the Lake Cave (no cafe) and then at the 100 year forest. We had booked the caravan park in the morning before leaving Contos and we have quite a good site, though, as with Contos, we are under trees and our Starlink signal can be intermittent, there are just no clear areas for it to work well. Still, it does seem to work better with obstructions than in the past, the whole system has constant updates.
Last night we rang Matt and had a catchup, then walked down to the beach to the lookouts. With no cloud it wasn’t going to be a spectacular sunset, so we came back and cooked sausages for tea. I cooked outside, something I don’t do very often, but there are no midges and only a few insects, so it was quite comfortable and meant we didn’t steam up the inside.
We had a good night’s sleep, using the fan next to our bed for the first time. It was the warmest night we’ve had and the first time we’ve slept without the doona.
On our second evening at Hamlin Bay we walked down to the beach and I went down to the shore where people were interacting with stingrays. There are notices that say they should not, especially as they can be dangerous, but not everyone takes it seriously. I didn’t feel tempted to pat one myself!