We got up early and walked into town to pick up the hire car
and then we headed off for a tour around the Exmouth peninsular and Cape Range
national park.
After a short drive, first stop was to have a quick look at
the VFL antenna. This thing is so huge and built so strong to survive all the
cyclones since 1952 when it was built. I was reading that personal promotions
and presentations were often performed on the top of tower zero at 387 meters,
the highest point in the southern hemisphere.
View of the VLF
antenna from Vlamingh Head light house
From the VLF tower we drove to the Vlamingh Head light house
near the tip of the North West Cape. The beautiful light house was built in 1912
and is no longer in service. The site also has the remains of an old WW2 radar
site that was bombed twice by the Japanese. Lots of the old sandbags are still
in place around the bottom of the tower.
From here we drove to Tandabidi and checked out the boat
ramp where we were moored three days ago. There were about six busses in the
car park, so lots of tourists out on whale shark tours today.
Shortly after Tandabidi we entered the Word
Heritage National Park and had to pull up to pay our thirteen-dollar park
entry fee. And shortly after this was the Word Heritage National Park visitors
centre which has been built to justify taking your thirteen dollars.
Built to resemble a homestead, staffed by five people and
probably costing several million dollars, I thought it was pretty ordinary and a
waste of money.
There were lots of galahs
and corellas everywhere
Next stop was Turquoise Bay, one of my favourite beaches.
Conditions were perfect and we were disappointed we didn’t bring along our
snorkelling gear. There were people
everywhere snorkelling and swimming.
After a quick look we headed off again to the end of the
bitumen where the Yardie Creek George cuts the road. We went for what the sign
said was a two hour walk which actually took us less than an hour. The George
was very beautiful but the flies were diabolical and we didn’t have our fly
nets or bushman and they drove us crazy and, in the end, we just wanted to get
back to the car.
After our scenic drive, we went to Frothies to have, yes you
guessed it, a couple of frothies, then I went and bought a couple of slabs of
beer, a couple of crabs and some prawns and went back to the boat to drop them
off and then to do a rubbish run and then returning back to the boat for the
night.
The crabs and prawns were delicious for dinner and I washed
mine down with a few beers.
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