it was good to catch up with Jo again, was last October when we last met up at Cape Le Grand National Park.

Made it as far as Oakabella Homestead after leaving Ellendale Pool. The amenities are good here with hot showers drinking water and flushing toilets. $8 per person per night is good.

Very intermittant Optus internet reception due to the antenna plugging into the Optus dongle, without which there would be none at all.

Very quiet here the campground is just a paddock. There is a heritage tour organised from the office and a restaurant on site. Camps6 #438 I expected to stay until Tuesday but was the only person here all day and with no other campers showing up so I will chance the Easter rush and move on Friday morning.

Very windy here too, I put up the annex thinking that I would be here for a few days but the wind got the better of it and blew it down, got it back into the bag on the van but it was a task.

So you can gather that I am not excited about Oakabella hence the moving on quickly.

John

Thanks for the comments CG and Jo, will take notice as I travel further north.

Left Oakabella Homestead and phoned Wagoe Chalets when my phone showed some reception only to find that they were booked out, but the receptionist said to go to Kalbari Information Centre where they may have overflow facilities.

Just leaving Northampton where I picked up a hitch hiker who was heading generally north so we travelled to Kalbarri where we both booked into the overflow centre for 3 nights, Steven has a one man tent. We visited Port Gregory and the Kalbarri National Park enroute to see the Pink Lake, Grandstand, Island Rock and Natural Arch.�� John

Steven planned out another day and we went to the Kalbarri National Park t

o see the impressive gorges there for the viewing. We had to travel 35kms of rutted gravel roads each way. I have been told that the faster you go the better the ride and I was going at 25kph and bouncing round watching others going by much faster, their wheels were going up and down but the chassis seemed to be more stable. I decided to try out 60kph and even got up to 80kph and whilst there was a lot of shaking going on the ride seemed better. The highlight of the driving came when we were coming back and I overtook 3 vehicles slowed down by a late model 4WD going about 25kph. A brilliant experience, I am sure that the drivers wondered what was going on when a 1979 Hi Ace went past at speed.
We got there at 8am so that we could do the 8km loop before it got too hot, magic photo opportunities but not an easy walk but we found time to swim in a couple of places and took about 4 hours. All up it was around 10kms because it took a km just to get to the start of the loop at Nature's Window.

We then went to Z Bend another spectaculat place for photos and swimming and back to Kalbarri beach for another dip.

John