To Jurien Bay:

Time to head back to the coast. We found a beautiful spot called Sandy Cape
Recreation Park which was right on the water. The water was a brilliant blue, the sand very white and there was lots of wattle and some lovely lookouts. A very picturesque place. As usual we always arrive early to ensure a good spot which we found and were surprised that there was only one other person here. It was quite windy so we decided to move to a little sheltered site and by the afternoon all the sites were taken.
I went for a walk and saw some wattle that had yellow leaves as well as yellow fluffy balls and it almost dazzled me.


We were surprised once again that there are very few waves but you could see a reef right out to sea. This coastline was responsible for many shipwrecks in the early days.

The next day the wind dropped and it was quite warm – even put the shorts on again but too cold for a swim.
Brian tried his hand at fishing and I put up the beach umbrella and became engrossed in a good book. Unfortunately the fishing was non productive so the fishing lines were put away.

We then went for a walk to the lookouts where you had some magnificent views. A boardwalk took us over the sandhills which protect the plants.

I met a nice girl who was a hairdresser so our site turned into a hairdressing salon as I was desperate for a haircut. We left lots of hair on the ground for birds and I was very pleased with my look.

After a relaxing few days we went a whole 14 kms to Jurien Bay. The wind picked up again and the temperature dropped.
Jurien Bay is a large bay with a protected marine park. There a couple of small islands of shore which are home to a sea lion colony but we didn’t see any. It is a pretty area and there is a nice foreshore with a bike path all along so we went for a long ride. There is a lot of development here as it is reasonably close to Perth and the opening of a new road will make it even more popular with the Perthites.

We went for a drive to the Leseur National Park which is nearby.
There was a lot of smoke bush, a grey feathery shrub, that waves in the breeze and looks like smoke. It is used a lot it in the cut flower industry. There are a lot of grass trees in this park as well as lots of banksias, and hakeas. It was a very pretty drive. We stopped a few times and I found a few new flowers.






That afternoon we went for a ride on the bikes along the foreshore. It was still windy but was an enjoying ride and in the evening there was some country music in the CP and after that we had some drinks with a couple we met at the last campsite.