Cairns to the Tip

Lachlan

We arrived in Cains to very hot weather and ever since i have not been cold once. We almost strait away we did at least 450km. and for the next while until Chili beach we did about 300km a day. but it was nice because it was mostly through cane fields mountains and rain forest. i always wanted to go to the rain forest but not so much anymore. Never ever leave your tent door open. i was sleeping with spider, beetles and anything else that crawls. but it was still good because we got to chase bush turkeys and climb coconut trees. Almost. It was good walking along the beach. on the way from chili beach on mums birthday the car broke down. some other people went to get parts for the wheel less trailer. the closest town ways 3 hours away. so that was mums birthday. in the end we did get back to our camp. a few days later we made it to the tip. the was a sign that said " You are standing at the northern most tip of the Australian continent". that was all. i thought there would be a building but there was nothing. in Seshia we did some fisher i caught one fisher and a big one got away. it was actually a big fish it bent the rod and i had it for 5 min. we are know in Port Douglas in a 4 star hotel. it has rained allot here so i am afraid of setting up in the rain as we head south.

Lachlan with his new friend the praying mantis

Pippa

We meet Mum, Lachie and Josh at the airport at 12:30 and went back for lunch. We went in the pool and went down the street. The next day we left for Cooktown. At Cooktown we saw a statue of James Cook. We travelled for many hours til we reached Chilli Beach. Chilli Beach had lots of rubbish on it but also was very pretty. The next day our trailer broke down. Steve took us back to Archer River and we set up in the Dickins camper trailer. The next day we went for a swim in the Archer River. My favourite part of the Archer River was the snatchem strap. We travelled to some falls called Elliott and Twin Falls. My favourite was Elliott but you had to jump into it. Twin was very pretty too because it was split level.

We then went to Loyalty Beach and had dinner on the beach at a restaurant. We went fishing and I caught the only fish. We watched a movie under the stars. We left for the Cape the next day. When we got there we had to walk for 10 minutes and we reached a sign saying "You are at the most Northern point of the continent of Australia".

We headed back down south and went to Fruit Bat Falls. We had a short swim. We travelled through Lakefield National Park and saw pretty lilly ponds. After Lakefield we are staying at Port Douglas. We are staying in a hotel room and we overlook the bay.
Pippa with her big catch

Kathy

Well, what an adventure. Our trip to the Cape was an adventure rather than a holiday. We had a bit of a flying trip which involved lots of time sitting in cars and not so much seeing the sights. The weather hasn't been as great as we would have hoped so it meant we couldn't stay as much where we wanted or see the sights at their best.

There were, though, many highlights including swimming in the Archer River - beautiful white sand and lovely gnarly trees. We had a magnificent meal at the resturant at Loyalty Beach Tourist Park. Lovely meal on the beach front, great company and atmostphere. The day we went to the tip was great weather. From the walk to the tip you look out over beautiful tropical beaches - azure water, white sand and rainforest kissing the beach - magical. We've also had great company in Dad and Joshua and the wonderful Dickins, thanks guys for helping make the trip so special.

The challenges? Hmm where do I start? No, not really. Red dust that gets into everything (EVERYTHING) and then turns to sticky staining mud when it is wet. A birthday sitting beside the road as the trailer did the wheel bearings in both wheels but alls well that ends well Steve saved the day and zoomed to Archer River Roadhouse and back with the necessary spares. We also met a wonderful indigenous local who did all he could to help us.

We're now in Port Douglas doing it very tough in a lovely unit looking over the water. I know, someone's got to do it. We'll now be heading slowly down the coast so Rhys can visit sugar mills and hopefully we can dodge the wet and cold weather. Love to you all.

Kathy on "the tip"

Campbell

We've just been travelling for a long time. We reached Cairns. We met our friends the Dickins and Grandpa and Joshua. We travelled to Cooktown and then Chilli Beach. Chilli Beach was so polluted and I found two cocoanuts which we ate. The wheel bearings failed on our trailer so travelled in Steve's car to Archer River Roadhouse for the night. We went to Elliott Falls but there was actually three falls. We then went to Loyalty Beach near the tip of Australia and then we travelled to the tip. There was a very strong current and I went fishing at the jetty near Loyalty Beach. I caught two big fish.

We have been having a great time.

Campbell & Pippa at the James Cook Statue, Cooktown

Home to Cairns

Pippa

I am just south of Townsville and it is about 20’C and every nice. So fare I have been to Dubbo Zoo and many other fun and not so fun places. At Dubbo Zoo we saw lots of different animals like Rhino, Elephant’s, Gibbon’s but my favorite was the Tiger. We have also been to Fraser Island and lots of other places most of you wouldn’t have heard of before. But at one place it was –5C when we woke up. I don’t miss the weather at all. We have been doing many other things. We hope to be up in Cains by Wednesday. We (as in Campbell and I) went in the pool and so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so freezing. We stayed at Gladstone for 1 night. Then headed off to Makay. When we got to Makay we had to see one of Dad’s clients after that we all decided to keep on going for one more hour till we got to Proserpine. So we got Red Roster for tea. When we got to Proserpine we also decided that we would stay in a motel. We got up early and headed off to Bowen for breaky we got to Bowen and had breaky on the rocks at Horseshoe Bay. We went snorkeling there and I saw a Spanish dancer. When we got to Townsville we headed off to The Strand to go to the Water Park and get an ice cream. I made tea, which was Steak, haloomi (Cheese), Potato, Sweet Potato and pea’s ‘n’ corn. When we woke up we went to the jumping pillow at lunchtime we went down to the strand for about one hour. Today we’re going to Cairns via Wallamen Falls. When we got to the Falls we walked down and walked back up the very, very, very steep hill. The falls are 268 meters high. When we got to Cairns and went in our apartment and got Chinese for tea. The next day we saw the dickens and went to meet grand pa on our scooters.

Campbell

I’m about 300km from Townsville it is about 26’C so its nice and warm. We stopped at Bimbi you’re a champion if you find it on a map. We had a very hot fire. We camped on the side of the road. We stopped at Dubbo zoo were you ride bikes and scooters

We stopped at my Dad’s friends place for the night near Parks. In the morning it was –5’C it was hard to pack up. We stopped at Maroochydore on the sunshine coast. Next we went to Fraser Island for two nights it rained for nearly the whole time.

Next we went to Bagara I found 4 or 5 geckos. Next we stayed at Gladstone I got bitten by a gecko.

At the moment we are staying at Proserpine. We some times wait in the car for 1 or 2 hours for Dad to visit clients. We stopped to have Breakfast at Bowen I went snorkeling I saw a coral Parrotfish In-between Townsville and Proserpine.

We stopped at Townsville for two nights the first day we had an ice cream and we went to a water playground at the strand. The next day we went to a church and after we went back to the water playground. We went to the biggest waterfall in Australia and then we went to Cairns.

At the moment we are at Cairns at a Motel.We have been sitting round the TV.

Rhys

What can I say so far, 4400kms in the car = a very sore backside! We have seen some lovely country and just about worked out once you get past Heywood sugar for large sections of the coast once you get past one sugar mill you can often see the exhaust stack of the next sugar mill.

Some of the memorable spots we have stayed so far:

1. Drovers stop @ Bimbi 0’C but a nice warm fire.
2. 2 nights on Fraser Island we tride to escape gale force winds so we stayed inland in a rain forest. I now know why it is a rain forest, it pored rain for 2 days, nice camping!
3. Friends farm near Coonabarabran (minus)-5’C with a fantastic frost outside the camper trailer, just a much ice inside as well!
4. Breakfast @ Horseshoe bay near Bowen. Ceral on the rocks, snorkeling with the coral chat with the local regular beach council.
5. Wellaman falls 268 metres of free falling water, largest in Australia.
6. Riding about 8km on scooters around Dubbo zoo.

Think normally it is about 3200km to Cairns but we have been doing some detours for work. Having seen sugar cane fields in Thailand and India I’m in awe of how far up the Australian east coast they extend for, truly an iconic Australian scene.

Tomorrow we are off to the cape with friends realy looking forward to it!

Off Again!!

This week we are at it again, same camper same crew! On this trip we hope to visit many more of Rhys' clients sites and some that are not clients yet!

Pippa - It dosn't feel like time to go yet

Perth - Home

(Photo: With William and Merran in Perth)

Pippa – Well we zoomed back home and stopped at a rest stop. Then we stopped at the head of the bight. We stopped at port Germein. We went down to Adelaide. Then we to Handorf an old German town but didn‘t stay the night we stayed at Nhill near Horsham. Then zoomed home. We have been home for about 10 days.

Campbell – We saw whales right up at the Great Australian Bight. We went 800km a day. We got home. We packed up. Going on our trip was beautiful. I liked Gambanan at Cape Leveque the best.

(Photo: at the Superpit, Kalgoolie)

Kathy – Pippa is right. We zoomed home! From Perth we made it home in four days and managed to squeeze in visits to Kalgoolie and Hahndorf on the way. For places we basically just passed

through to get home we went through some interesting places. One of the highlights was a great spot on the cliffs of the Great Australian Bight. At night the stars were amazing. The Milky Way looked three dimensional there were that many stars. In the morning we were privileged to see a mother and calf hump back whale make their way along the coast right under the cliffs we were camping at. Another lovely spot was Port Germein near Port Augusta. This was a lovely little fishing village with beautiful SA sandstone buildings and a very, very long jetty. We then traveled through SA before staying the night at Nhill and next morning we hot footed it home. The kids were super excited to be nearing home. They were nearly beside themselves as we were going down the drive. We got home on Wednesday 1 October and it is great to be home – even though it is way cold! The trip was so memorable. You cannot replicate actually experiencing places up close and personal. TV shows or books are really a very poor second. We have seen so many amazing places and met some great people. The kids have had a trip of a lifetime and have learnt so much about Australian history, geography and demographics. My favourite places? Hmmm… there were so many. In no particular order they would be: Gumlon Falls at Kakadu, Exmouth, Cape Leveque and El Questro Station Gorges. We’re looking forward to catching up with you all asap. Thanks for tuning into our blog and sharing our journey with us.

Lachlan – we hurried back home. We zoomed across the nulabor. I thought it would be a lot longer. On the way we stopped at pt geman and at the head of the bight. I collected fossilsed shells. The next morning we saw some whales. This was the best expereance that I could ever had I did not think Australia was like this I liked cape levque and litchfeild.

(Photo: Coast along the Great Australian Bight)

Rhys – this is about the first time I’ve actually read the above comments before I write my comments, so in order to keep this brief I wont comment on the time from Perth to home only to say that we stayed at very nice places. I’ll just try and sum up some of my thoughts on the trip. Firstly would like to say that even if you are not an outdoors type person it is an amazing experience to go away from the big cities and towns and just gaze up at the stars and see how many their really are, millions. Secondly there are so many amazing places to visit and people to meet, why not plan to make the time to go and see this wonderful country, not just by staying in a nice resort on the sunshine or gold coast. Get out and see the real country, even camping at night in the middle of a desert or a lonely creek someplace is an experience that everybody should do at least once in a lifetime.

(Photo: Mother and Calf Humpback Whales of the coast of the Great Australian Bight)

The whole experience has been well worth it the challenges from the children at each others throat to open air “ala carte” meals under the stars by the seaside prepared by a beautiful wife to playing hide and seek in the pinnacles of oration gorge are all experiences to learn from. What a memorable experience and a lifetime dream come true. Sorry better go, need to prepare for the next trip!

(Photo: Rhys and Campbell on the Jetty at Port Germein, SA)

Kalbarri - Perth

(Photo: The Pinnacles)

Kathy - It is amazing how quickly our sojourn in Kalbarri ended. We had a great time with the Dickins. We toured gorges, visited beaches and cafes, sought out the wildflowers and visited a parrot "zoo" - Campbell was very taken with the Macaws until their beaks got too close!

We left Kalbarri on the warmest day we'd had there and spent the day in the car travelling to Perth via The Pinnacles which were much more interesting than we anticipated. Rhys and the kids played 40-40 and in the process Campbell managed to go missing for 15 minutes (he thought he'd hide a really, really long way away) and then lost his sand coloured crocs which apparently he left them behind a small pinnacle. Do you know how many small pinnacles there are?!

We're now in Perth. When we first drove in we couldn't get over all the traffic, houses etc. By the next morning Rhys and Campbell had hit the shops and checking out JB HiFi, Anaconda etc. Its good to see they've adapted back to urban life so quickly!





(Photo: Kings Park)

Today we went to Kings Park which was great - lots more wildflowers and some very interesting garden designs and sculptures which we plan to shamelessly plagerize in our garden (Julie Bishop move over!). We happened to bump into a family from Woolongong at the Park who we seem to be stalking and had coffee while the kids played. Hi guys. Maybe we'll see you in Kalgoolie. We then went on to Freemantle for a nice urban foodie lunch - v. nice.


Tomorrow it is meant to rain in Perth - the only capital city in Australia expecting rain! We're not sure what we'll do as we're so unused to rain. Then we're going to stay with our friends, William and Merran, for a couple of days before heading off to Kalgoolie and then home. Hopefully we have a chance to send another blog before we get home but otherwise we'll catch up some time after 3 October.

(Photo: Lunch in Freemantle)

Quobba - Kalbarri

(Photo: Blowhole, Quobba Station)

Pippa-We went to Shark Bay after spending 1week in Exmouth. When we got to Denham we set up next to a Campbell friend Andrew. We went out for tea with Andrews Family. At the Old Pealer Café Restaurant. The next morning we went to Monkey Mia to see the dolphins but it was a bit commercialized for me we didn’t get to pat them. At sea world the dolphins are much better there. We went all the way to Neren Neren stop for the night. We went to Kalbarri the next day. We meet the dickens there. We have been doing lots of stuff.

(Photos: 1. Shell Beach, Shark Bay 2.Stomatolites, Hamlin Pool, Shark Bay )

Campbell - we went to monkeymia and saw the dolphins. We drove to Kalbarri met the dickins. We did 8 km on a gorge walk. There were lots of things to see. I saw a snake. We went fishing off a jetty. We caught lots of undersized fish. I was the first one to catch fish. Lucas caught the second fish in his lifetime that was very big but it snapped the line. We are staying in a unit.

(Photo: Nature's Window, Kalbarri)

Lachlan- we went to shark bay after Exmouth. We went to the visitor center it had lots of artifacts and information. For tea went to an old pearling shop made out of shell rock for tea. The next morning we went to see the dolphins. It wasn’t as good as it sounded. Then we went to eagle bluff. We saw sharks, stingrays and a black blob, which we think was a dugong. Then we went to shell beach. It was fully shells no sand to be seen. Then went to see some stromatolites. We bought some shell rock. That we stayed at a rest stop. We ate marshmallows with the best before date 5/8/08! Then we went to Kalbarri and met the dickens. We have done lots of stuff like go on a fishing charter and go on an 8km gorge walk.

(Photo: At Murchison River Gorge, Kalbarri)

Rhys – After Exmouth onto Quobba (aboriginal word for hitting someone). Amazing history of Europeans (mainly Dutch) crashing ships into a very rugged coastline, not a good habit! After a reasonable days drive we arrived at Quobba Station a “farm” that has 80km of coastline and is about 185,000 acres of land! Unfortunately the land is very low lying sand dunes covered by stumpy saltbush with an annual rainfall of about 350mm, very harsh country. Found a campsite behind a saltbush that offered a bit of shelter from the SE winds, which we have been battling since leaving cape leveque. In the morning I took the kid along the beach that was about 100m from our camp site, at the beach we found mountains of giant clam shells, each about 200mm long piled up as much as 1000mm deep in places. There must be millions of these things in the ocean. Walking up on top of the cliffs with an 8 –10m swell rolling in and crashing into the cliffs sending spray billowing into the air was very impressive. We spotted a pod of dolphins just offshore and witness them catch a large fish and toss it about. Then they proceeded to surf the waves in, which after a short ride would turn around and jump off the back of the wave, with such a large swell they jump left them 5-6m above the water, amazing sight! On leaving we visited the HMAS Sydney II memorial (my mums cousin was a crewman) then to the Quobba blowholes, another wondrous sight.

From Quobba we headed off towards Kalbarri arriving after we spent a night at a roadside stop. Kalbarri has it all Ocean, river, wildflowers, gorges and nice foodie places. We spent a marvelous week with Steve, Wendy Dickens and family, which was very good to see them and spend time together, it went so quickly. It was good enjoying the products Kalbarri has to offer with friends. We had only been catching little fish off the pier, and wanting bigger ones on the Saturday Steve, Lachlan and I went out on a charter boat the “”Kalbarri Explorer” to catch some big fish. Steve and Lachie catch some unfortunately I got seasick before I could get a rod in the water. As the trip was for 5-6 hours I spent it in contemplation assessing my life, hoping for time travel fast and maintaining to consistently vomiting into a bucket. I was able to get additional contemplation of life by alternating between having the shakes, hot sweat, freezing cold, visiting the toilet and vomiting, I believe I did it all well as next day on the pier fishing a fellow fisherman recognized me and commented on how “committed I was to the bucket “. Also was advised by the skipper of the boat that he had never in his “30 years at sea seen any body as sick”, comforting words. Guess it was not at all helped by already feeling a bit bilious from the chronic fatigue that I still have.

Tomorrow we are off to Perth then home, how quick has the last 3.5 months gone!

(Photo: Lachlan with his big catch!)

Kathy – Well, we’ve gone from camping in the outback trailer to living it up in an apartment in a resort since we last blogged.

After Exmouth we went to Quobba Station which is up from Carnarvon and guess what? It was windy! Fortunately it was just windy, windy and not gale force. The Quobba coastline reminded me very much of Victoria. Instead of turquoise blue sea and white sands we had big cliffs and a roaring sea. The waves were enormous and it seemed most of the coral reef on the coast – particularly the clams – was washed up on the beach.

From Quobba we headed to Shark Bay and Monkey Mia. At Shark Bay we actually had to put a jumper on – it was getting colder! Denham was a nice little town and we met our friends, the Dunfords and also Will and Tim, the bike riders we had met previously. We ended up having a meal with the Dunfords at a lovely little restaurant made out of shell rock. We took the kids to Monkey Mia while there to see the dolphins and were all suitably unimpressed! Much more interesting was the stromatolites at Hamlin Pool and Shell Beach which instead of sand the beach is very small shells. Very different.

From there we went to Kalbarri via an overnight stay at Neren Neren Rest Stop which was actually quite good and surrounded in wildflowers. Talking of wildflowers, we’ve been very fortunate to see lots of flowers and every 50 kms or so the wildflowers change. If you have the time I can bore you with thousands of photos of wildflowers from around Australia! There were lots of wildflowers along the road to Kalbarri which was fantastic.

At Kalbarri we met up with Steve, Wendy, Lucas and Lauren Dickins. We’ve had a great time with them this week. It has been great doing things with them. We’ve done, yet another, gorge walk which was great. We’ve hit the cafes and the beaches. Rhys and Lachlan went deep sea fishing with Steve although Rhys had serious sea sickness and didn’t even get to put a rod in. Kalbarri is a great place which had a great mixture of the outback with the gorges, nice beaches and a lovely little village with all you need. Very nice. But this has now come to an end and tomorrow we head off to Perth for a couple of days and then it is basically “Home James”. We plan to be back in Melbourne on or about 3 October. We are having those mixed feelings of looking forward to going home to our own house and seeing friends and family again but at the same time realizing that our great adventure is almost over. It has been such a fantastic time but it will be great to get home.

Ningaloo Station - Exmouth

(Photo: Turquoise Bay)

Lachlan – We went to Ningaloo Station. It was windy. We had lots of sand fights and lots of walks collecting shells. We found some nice ones. One day we went snorkeling and saw heaps of fish and coral and just as it started to get good a big grey nurse shark came over purple coral! So we changed our snorkel quickly to a shell collecting walk along the beach. Then we went to Exmouth. On the second day we went snorkeling at turquoise bay. It was really good snorkeling. Any type of fish was there. The current was strong. We saw parrot fish any colours. Then had a jellyfish fight.

(Photo: Lighthouse at sunset, Exmouth)

Pippa - Well we have been having fun going to the beach, snorcling, getting shells, patting a goat yes a baby goat! Lachie and dad saw a Grey nurse shark it can eat you. I like to go for a swim. I made pancakes on father’s day. We have been missing the gorges all ready. We prefer gorges than the beach. We are in Exmouth now. We went snorcling at Turquise bay the current was very strong. There where many different types of fish. There where Red, Blue, White, Yellow, Sliver, Purple, Spanish dancer, Black, Brown and Orange.

Campbell - I caught my first fish. It was windy. I we to get a reall.I went fishing. We caught nothing.

(Photo: Lachlan and Pippa at Turquoise Bay)

Kathy – Not more raves about turquoise water, warm sun and white sand you may say! Well, sorry. If you don’t want to read more about the above don’t read on. Ningaloo Station had all this and more and, even better, we were able to camp on the beach. There was only a small sand dune between us and the beach. The kids could play on the beach and we could supervise them from the comfort of the annex. There are many campsites at Ningaloo Station and apparently they get about 40,000 people through a year. We stayed at South LeFroy Bay which had the best snorkeling. When we got there it was pretty windy. The next day it was very windy and that night it was blowing a gale! People were saying the weather was “unusual”. Hmmm. Somehow we have managed to strike a lot of “unusal weather” (euphemism for extremely windy to the point of gale force) in WA. On the third day the wind died down and Lachlan, Rhys and I went snorkeling while Campbell fished off the beach. The snorkeling was sensational. Great coral, an amazing array of fish and….a 2.5 metre grey nurse shark! Lachlan spotted the shark and Rhys very quickly assessed it was of the humans are food not friends variety so we hot footed it back to shore with the shark following us at least half the way in. Don’t worry. Rhys had a pocket knife with him (as you do) so he was armed and dangerous if anything untoward was going to happen. We’ve since been assured by locals that the sharks up here are so well fed on the abundant sea life that they seldom take on humans. Well, I for one was not going to check to see if he was hungry. Talking of abundant sea life by the time we had returned Campbell had caught his first fish. It was an undersized perch but he was as proud as punch and was already talking up the bigger fish he had hooked which had got away. Apparently this now makes him a seasoned fisherman and he now feels qualified to wade into any conversation where fishing is mentioned!

After being sandblasted for three days we decided to forgo the beachside camp grounds at Cape Range National Park and opted for a sheltered caravan park in Exmouth. We met some friends of Campbell’s (and now ours) in the Exmouth Visitors Centre and found where they were staying and checked in there. We discovered that there were three other families we had met along the way there so the kids have had great fun playing spotlight at night with them. The park is right beside the local lighthouse which is a great whale spotting venue. We’ve gone up a couple of times and seen the whales and also viewed the great sunset from there.
I think the highlight has been snorkeling at Turquoise Bay (that is, apart from me getting a long-overdue hair cut and colour!). Although the coral and sea life were probably not quite as good as Ningaloo Station the only shark spotted was a reef shark which is apparently a shy creature and not likely to attack. Again it was the usual scenario - amazingly blue water and white, white sand. Rhys and Lachlan snorkeled for a long time and got some great underwater shots while the others did a bit of snorkeling and then enjoyed making sandcastles and jelly fish “farms” with other kids on the beach. We are hoping to go on a tour of the reef in a glass bottomed boat on Saturday but we are having “unusual weather” yes, you guessed it, very windy so we’ll have to see if conditions are suitable. After the tour we are planning to travel down to Quobba to see the blowholes then visit the dolphins at Monkey Mia before spending a week with Steve and Wendy Dickins at Kalbarri.

(Photo: walking along the beach at Ningaloo Station)

Rhys – for the first time I have read Kathy’s Blog, she does writ a lot better then me. As Kathy has so eloquently written about our diving experience at Ningaloo Station so I wont add more on that point other than I did not want to become shark food. We then took note of the school fish mentality and headed up to the top of North West cape where you could snorkel as a “school”of humans, less probability of getting eaten, particularly if you swim in the center of the “school”. Ningaloo Station would be a sensational place if you had a small boat. At North West cape there is more antennas than you can imagine, the military are quite active. Our two day stop over turned out to last about a week! Many things to see and do, I bet Exmouth will be a dramatically different place in 5 years time, so much development. Took the children fishing, don’t think I will live that one down. In the past when we have been fishing we have not caught much, it all changes when you catch a heap of fish. As soon as we packed up our fishing gear the boys were “angling” at going to our next fishing spot as soon as possible. The wind blows incessantly on the west coast, looking forward to get away from it. Tomorrow we are meant to be going in a glass bottom boat and go snorkeling (if the wind drops enough). After the boat tour we are hopefully going to travel Quobba where there is meant to be good scenery, fishing and camping. From there we a going to meet Steve, Wendy & Co for a week in Kalbarri which we are looking forward

(Photo: Pippa and Campbell at our Ningaloo Station campsite)