Today, we packed and travelled to Middle Lagoon on the Dampier Peninsula – Cape Leveque
We just didn’t have enough time at the Bird Observatory and will be going back there for three nights after Cape Leveque.
When you leave the Broome Bird Observatory Rd, the road to Cape Leveque is almost opposite this road. There is 14 kms of bitumen and then onto red sandy corrugated road and then the surprise after 90 kms you are back on a bitumen road again. We almost missed the turn off to Middle Lagoon because we made quick time on the bitumen.
We are staying at Nature’s Hideaway. I phoned ahead and booked a lagoon view campsite, Herbie told me that we could change if we didn’t like the site. When we arrived there was a queue of three cars looking for a camp site, a shady campsite. We thought there goes any chance we have of getting a good site, but whoooo hoooo, he had reserved us a great site.
We met two road trains on the cape road, but it was not wide like this, very squeezy, we stopped so they could squeeze past us. The road has been graded so many times, you are about 1.7m below the original ground level, so there is no where to leave the road.
The view from our campsite
We have a south pacific shell decorated shade shelter with a tap under two shady trees and a shower. The water is coming out really warm from the black poly pipe. We could go up to the shower block for a hot shower, but this is great! I had read the reviews and we are out of the main camp ground, so have privacy and it’s not as windy as the sites on the ridge overlooking the ocean on the other side of the headland. We have a easy track to the beach. We feel like we are on a tropical island.
After setting up, we drove to the headland and spent some time at the low tide rock pools. I found some rock oysters and a nice little pointed rock to open them with. They were so fresh and delicious.
The rocks have all sorts of things like shells and pebbles in them and are fused together , then broken off in large chunks
A rock pool critter I haven’t seen before. A couple of fish nicely camouflaged on the rock.
Thursday 11th September- Warm, Sunny Fine
Today, we had a repack at camp, putting away our food supplies and trying to efficiently repack the camper so that we have the less used items packed to the back. It was also washing day. Everything is working fine with the batteries & solar panel there was no issue using the washing machine off the camper battery. It was around lunch time that we finally broke free of the chores to have some fun. We headed down to the beach for a swim and came back for lunch. After lunch, we set up the kayak and fishing gear and took it down to the lagoon for some paddling and fishing, on the low tide.
There was a bit of surf up when we launched the kayak, but we had no trouble. It does very well in the rough. We had all the fishing gear on as well. The rod holders are very handy. We have two for the back and one on each side. We carry a crate in front of me with the tackle. It’s easy to fish from.
We didn’t stay out too long as the tide was getting lower, and that’s a long way to drag the kayak over the sand back to camp.
We caught a couple of sands crabs yesterday on our beach walk, so used them and didn’t get a bite. No surprises there as we aren’t the best at fishing. The tides are huge here. Low tide is at .3 and high tide is 10 metres.
Low tide in the lagoon.
This rock face (sorry for the play on words :)) had this loose pebble with the indentation in the left eye socket. You could move it, but it would not come out.
Camp Hopes Hideaway from the headland
Late afternoon at the headland rock pools Showing the lagoon reef and entrance at low tide.
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