Today was planned as a driving day to get to Kalbarri, our next destination, however we ended up making a few sightseeing stops along the way – all still in Shark Bay. These were some of the stops we hadn’t made on our way up the peninsula the first day.

So first we stopped at Eagle’s Bluff, which was a steep cliff with a boardwalk perched high above the bay below. There were great views across Shark Bay to Useless Loop. Much of the waters below we’re quite clear and we had a good look for any sharks or manta rays or other marine life, but couldn’t see any.

We then stopped about 15mins later at a place called Shell Beach which is an amazingly white beach that has been created naturally from hundreds of millions of tiny seashells (Fragum Cockles). We made pictures in the shell sand and splashed our feet in the shallows of the water. This is also where the fence for Project Eden is constructed as it is at the narrowest part of the peninsula.

Then we drove back to Hamelin Pool and decided to stop there again as we’d seen some things in the gift shop there that we wanted to have another look at – we’d hurried through a bit last time. We also had lunch while here.

Then it was time to make haste for the remaining 200 or so km to Kalbarri, as it was almost 2pm by this time.

Nothing much of interest between Overlander Roadhouse and Kalbarri, apart from noticing more and more wildflowers on the side of the road. This was a nice sight.

We eventually got to Kalbarri about 4.30pm and did some research on caravan parks and settled at staying at the Tudor Caravan Park, as it had a pool, playground, and jumping pillow – and when we rang them they offered to give us a discount on the children. So we went and set up. We had a good location again right across from the playground and jumping pillow. The kids enjoyed these for a while before dinner.

Lauren, Sam, Michael and I had a fun game of 500 tonight – we’ve often been too tired to play cards, but we made the effort tonight and it was fun.