Today we drive to Coral Bay, a 6 hour ride. We have stayed the last few days at Karartha. We went on a four hour bus tour of the towns around here, Cossack and Roebourne. It was very well done, although the lunch didn’t really fill us. We have visited a few beaches and done a walk or two here but the Pilbara hasn’t interested me as much as other places, probably because I didn’t know that much about it. Just that it had a bunch of mining towns.

Before we came here we stopped a night at Eighty Mile beach, which was a bit of a highlight, simply because, that evening we took our dinner in the car, drove along the beach and then ate dinner with the sunset and jumped off the top of the sand dunes. The next morning, just before leaving, we went back down to the beach and this time Sam and I drove! It was so much fun to drive along the beach in a 2 tonne truck, not having to focus to hard because it’s an automatic. But we drove along the sand both directions, then we had to get going.

We are meeting up with some friends from church, the Hays in Coral Bay who are staying at the same caravan park that we will stay at. We’re really looking forward to seeing them and exchanging notes since they are travelling around for the second time. This second trip is more of a vacation and they have been seeing less and relaxing more than us. Dad claims that one day, when all us kids are gone, he and Mum will have that luxury!

The whole family had a laugh last night when Sam gave us his to-do list for Perth, aided by Ryan. It included Adventure World, a giant water park and several other high budget activities. We really weren’t surprised, Sam tends to be expensive.