These photos are out of order so I'll do my best to explain what we've been up to. These photos are at Karijini National Park at Oxer lookout. The views were amazing and photos don't really do it justice.
The boys walked through water up to waist depth to get to the handrail pool which gave them interesting views.
There are so many wildflowers at this time of year which make the landscape so pretty.
We went on a mine tour at Tom Price and above is all of us at the pit lookout. The hole made by mining is huge! The huge "Tonka" truck below has tyres as high as a bus and cost 4.5 million. They have 30 of these working everyday.
This photo shows the beautiful pool we had at the caravan park at Broome. We kept forgetting to take the camera to the pool and only remembered on the last day of our stay.
Above and below shows the boys riding along the beach at 80 mile beach. There were so many fantastic shells along the beach and the boys collected a bag full of them.
At 80 mile beach caravan park we noticed a crowd of people at one campsite and found out they were watching this perentie (goanna) catch, kill and eat this western brown snake. We were told this snake is the 2nd most poisonous in Australia. After this I made sure we kept our tent door zipped up all the time so no snakes could slip into a sleeping bag while we weren't watching.
We visited Dampier to see the statue of Red Dog which was made famous by the movie.
Dales gorge in Karijini NP. This tree hung over the water.
Our camp site at Karijini NP with our mobile home! We've been putting up the annexe and side walls most times to keep the sun off us. In the shade the weather is nice. Below is the bush cubby that the boys found next to our camp site and added to and enjoyed playing in. They had a pretend camp fire in the cubby. It kept them busy.
Above is Fern Pool which we all enjoyed swimming in right up to a waterfall. It also acted as a bath as we didn't have showers at the camp site at Karijini NP so that was our way to get clean and cool. Below is the handrail pool the boys had to walk through water to get to.
Finally, an enormous digger at the mine which makes us look like ants. We all enjoyed the mine tour at Tom Price but unfortunately the tour bus broke down and we were left in the bus for 30 minutes in the middle of the mine while another bus came to pick us up. By then we were used to mechanical things going wrong. When leaving Karijini NP our trailer wheel was very wobbly and a campsite volunteer pulled us over out of concern. He thought the bearing was damaged so we pulled into an available camp site and he showed us how to pull off the wheel and inspect the bearing.The bearing had totally disintergrated and we would have ruined the axle if we had tried to drive to Tom Price. We were going to have it looked at on arriving at TP as we didn't know how to fix it. We all drove the 92km's into TP with the hub and broken bearing to find a mechanic who could put a new bearing in it, leaving the trailer at Karijini. We found a very helpful mechanic who luckily had the bearing we needed and installed it into the wheel hub. We then drove back to Karijini and the same man installed it for us showing Steve the whole time what he was doing so he could do it himself next time. Finally we hitched up the camper trailer to the car and drove it into TP and set up for the night. What a day! We actually felt that our good deed of the previous day when we stopped and helped a lady who had a flat tyre was repaid by this helpful man who helped change our bearings. The world works in mysterious ways!
Steve has now taken off the other wheel today to check the bearings and re greese them so that we hopefully won't have that problem again.
We move onto Exmouth tomorrow and can't wait to go snorkelling on Ningaloo Reef.
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