This was basically a day of travel. It was about 600km to Coral Bay, without any significant towns in between – only a couple of roadhouses. I drove for most of the way today and Michael sat with Hannah and Bethany in the middle row and did some schoolwork with them. It was a good break for me to not be working with them on their schoolwork, and Michael did a good job.

We reached Coral Bay about 5pm and checked in – we were in another good site near the playground and amenities. We had been in contact with some friends of ours from church – David and Janenne Hay. They have also been travelling around Australia at this time. They were ahead of us for the first couple of months, but they have been spending more time than us in areas such as the Kimberley and the Pilbara. So a few days ago we worked out we would probably be at Coral Bay around the same time. So we have booked in to the same caravan park (Bayview Caravan Park). We saw them briefly as we were driving in and arranged to catch up properly after dinner and once the younger girls were in bed. So we set up, had dinner (one of the frozen ones) and settled H &B to bed. David and Janenne came over to our site and we sat outside and chatted for a couple of hours. It was a lovely cool, but not to cold night. We decided we would both be visiting the beach tomorrow so we would get together again for that.