Denham
Well, here we are in Denham (about 1000ks North of Perth). We left Kalbarri this morning and drove the almost 400 ks to Denham along a really good road with no wind (for a nice change) with a stop for lunch in Billabong at the pub. Could have had a job at the pub-room and food plus $100 each a week-I DON’T THINK SO!
We shared the driving, and I chose to stop and have a look at Shelly Beach. That’s exactly what it was-a beach made up of gazillions of tiny cockle shells, no sand, just tiny shells. I’ve never seen anything like it anywhere.
Denham is 129ks off the main highway, it’s almost a dead end apart from Monkey Mia (29ks away and all of you would know the dolphins come there to be hand fed), so we have to turn round and drive the 129ks out of here when we leave next week.
We booked in here (and discovered Charles our annoying neighbour in Jurien is here too), set up then went down to shop. Lettuces were $4.99, cucs $3.99, there was no bread left, the milk was warm and there wasn’t much meat! When we got back we went for a drive just above the park and when I spotted our van I said to Russ that our neighbours had a big boat. We got back and he said “they have a REALLY big boat!”
They invited us over for a drink before dinner and they have a big van, vehicle and a huge shark cat. They are a much older couple than us and haven’t been together very long at all by the way they were talking, but it was great to sit and have a drink and chat with them. It takes him two trips from Bunbury to move the van, gear and boat down and they will spend a few months here.
Shelly beach is part of a world heritage site, but they can take some of the shells commercially as it is a renewable resource; this caravan park is top-dressed every year with shells from there, so we aren’t on sand; we are on shells which is really good for a change.
We shared the driving, and I chose to stop and have a look at Shelly Beach. That’s exactly what it was-a beach made up of gazillions of tiny cockle shells, no sand, just tiny shells. I’ve never seen anything like it anywhere.
Denham is 129ks off the main highway, it’s almost a dead end apart from Monkey Mia (29ks away and all of you would know the dolphins come there to be hand fed), so we have to turn round and drive the 129ks out of here when we leave next week.
We booked in here (and discovered Charles our annoying neighbour in Jurien is here too), set up then went down to shop. Lettuces were $4.99, cucs $3.99, there was no bread left, the milk was warm and there wasn’t much meat! When we got back we went for a drive just above the park and when I spotted our van I said to Russ that our neighbours had a big boat. We got back and he said “they have a REALLY big boat!”
They invited us over for a drink before dinner and they have a big van, vehicle and a huge shark cat. They are a much older couple than us and haven’t been together very long at all by the way they were talking, but it was great to sit and have a drink and chat with them. It takes him two trips from Bunbury to move the van, gear and boat down and they will spend a few months here.
Shelly beach is part of a world heritage site, but they can take some of the shells commercially as it is a renewable resource; this caravan park is top-dressed every year with shells from there, so we aren’t on sand; we are on shells which is really good for a change.
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