After leaving the nice spot at Sandy Cape, our mind is set on kite surfing. The piece of coast we are doing now has a perfect setting with a reef further out and a sandy shore……if there would have been wind. The forecast for wind is not great, every day below 19 kph (10 knots) which is not enough to kite. The ideal range is from 15 to 25 knots although I’m struggling to do the 25 knots and also the crew don’t appreciate getting sand blasted at those wind speeds.
We consider staying till Tuesday at Lancelin as the beach and water is droolingly good (even Dotti agrees) but neither of the campings take dogs.
So on we go, we look at options between here and Perth and come up with only one reasonable spot. We thought about Ledge Point but the camping asks $43 a night and I have to start looking for a job at that rate. We also look at free camping half way, but the combined fines of having your dogs in the National Park along the coast plus ignoring the No Camping signs would be $8,000. then we toss around the option of hijacking a tin shed near Wedge Island, but again we chicken out when we see the many signs.
So we decide for Moore River bridge rest stop.
On the way we stop for the Pinnacles but again they’ve hidden them in a National Park. The rangers are pretty smart as they spotted that our ‘babies’ were not of the human kind. Must have been our mistake of dressing the ‘boy’ in red and the ‘girl’ in blue.
At Moore River bridge stop we find a spot that allows us our little own area.
Not much later we find out that we had a primary location and that this site gets full pretty quick.
Despite the number of people in such close proximity, it was a very quiet night and a lovely walk in the morning along (and for some in) the Moore river.
Posted from Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
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