We pulled out of our camp at Cape Range NP with the rain still falling and no more snorkelling done.
We drove back to Exmouth and completed the essential tasks- restocking on food, water, gas for cooking, diesel. We posted the accumulated blogs and paid for showers ( the first in four days) to wash all that salt off at the caravan park.
Replete with yummy bakery lunch and with dessert in hand we headed on out of town.
We deviated before long, driving in on the shothole canyon road (formed for seismic testing for geology?) into the Cape Range hills
and then along the Charles Knife road (the product of oil exploration).
Both were pretty impressive and dramatic. The first followed the bottom of canyons. The second followed the spurs with some very dramatic drop offs.
Once we had completed these we were pushing to try to make our planned campsite before dark.
We drove in to Bruboodjoo just as light was fading and spoke briefly with the camp caretaker who was sitting watching TV on his big screen TV!! We agreed to pay him tomorrow and went sand found a flat spot we thought might work for us all. It is pretty wet and I hope that we don’t have to swim out of here in the morning.
We had the little awning up over the stove to cook tea, and it did a pretty good job of keeping the rain off. We basically hid inside once we had done a very brief walk out to the beach (about 300m) due to the constant rain. It’s still not looking good for drying off those clothes!!
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