This is our rest spot so I’m doing it all in one.
We got up at sunrise and packed up, by 7.30 we were on the
road and heading North. We weren’t quite sure where we were going to stay, so
decided to find somewhere nice and stop there. We went all the way to the top
to Cape Leveque, we had read that it was a very nice place with beach shacks
that you could camp next to. When we arrived we soon realised that this was not
our cup of tea – very touristy, with campers lined up like bullets! We had a
cup of coffee and cake while we did some research. Iain found a campground that
had very basic facilities and was difficult to find without instructions or
knowledge, so we decided that might just be our best option.
It was certainly very obscure, and we weren’t even sure that
we were on the right road, it was very sandy with deep ruts. As we rounded a
corner, there was a car in front of us – stuck – he wasn’t going anywhere. We
managed to get around him and Iain snatched him out, he was very pleased that a
Land Rover had to rescue a Landcruiser!
It was a local man
and he confirmed that we were definitely on the right track. We pulled into
Bully’s camp and it was empty, and we had internet, we were very happy. Jeff
the caretaker got us set up in a beautiful spot, and the relaxing began.
For the next couple of days we caught up on blog, went for
walks on the beach, took loads of photos and generally just relaxed. It was
bliss.
There have to be a few honourable mentions. First would be
the toilet/ shower block. Now Jeff obviously gets no funding so everything is
pretty basic, the problem is that the floor of the elevated amenities block is
rotting! I was seriously scared every time I went in there. I did however
discover that there was a separate building that had a shower in it, I felt a
lot safer in there. The other thing would be, being woken up at 1.30am by some
campers that had to relocate from another campsite because of a bush fire. I
felt sorry for them, but was not impressed that we got very little sleep with a
big day of driving ahead of us.
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