Thursday, June 13, 2019

Thursday 13th June 2019 – Exmouth


After a lovely sleep - in in this beautiful quiet and calm mooring, I walked outside to see the whole rigging covered in corellas.  Luckily, they didn’t eat my coaxial cables and wind instrument.


We took a taxi the three kilometres into town to do our washing, then we did some shopping and had some lunch. Putu bought a huge almost two-meter-long French bread stick and I felt so stupid having to carry it around everywhere.


“Easy Life” looks like she has had a hard life

Exmouth has changed so much since I was last here in the nineties. After cyclone Vance destroyed a lot of the houses and infrastructure, so much has been rebuilt and there are so many new resorts and camping grounds, I hardly recognised the place.


This little corella joined us for lunch

After lunch, we walked to the new visitor’s centre, a massive complex showcasing the history of Exmouth. (And here I am carrying around this huge French bread stick getting weird looks from every one)

We walked the three kilometres back to the boat and before dinner I had a long chat with Dave (MV Fonster) on the radio who was stuck in Jurien Bay due to the bad weather.



We were meant to stay in the jetty in the foreground but we didn’t fit.
During the evening, Putu decided she wanted to hire a car and see the surrounding area of Exmouth, so we booked a car for early morning.


So quiet and peaceful in the canals

Track Sirocco’s progress


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