Daniel and Marysia around Australia: Cape Leveque, Western Australia.

The 4wd route to Cape Leveque

Okay we were now on our way to Cape Leveque, as Monika had suggested that we should visit. One question Monika. Did you fly there?........or did you forget to tell us that it was almost 200ks 4 wheel drive route? So again it was red dust as Daniel decided to make a one night
stopover at Middle Lagoon. The beach was beautiful, the water clear, the swim fantastic. Payment made for the night, tent set up, no camp kitchen so we had to make do with Szymon's portable gas stove..Still dinner was exceptional...potatoes, snags and dill pickles! Yum!

What to do when you're on a 4wd track as a passenger!

Our tent was set up on the ridge with the wind picking up its gust during the night. At one point we thought we were going to be blown into the ocean...but we weren't.

Tent packed, car packed we headed to Cape Leveque, Kooljaman where we were booked for one night. Pretty windy so we decided to pitch tent later in the afternoon. From here
we set out to Lombadina to see if we could get some bread. Arriving at 11.45am the office was closed for lunch until 1.00pm. We headed out to Chile Creek only to find that to
access the beach you had to pay $10 per person......as this was an Aboriginal community.

As a driver you pay attention to the roads!

Daniel decided that we should head up to the tip One Arm Point, the furthest tip
you could go at Cape Leveque. This was also an Aboriginal community where we had to pay $10 each and to remain and visit only where we were allowed to visit and leave at 5.00pm.
We decided to stop for lunch as we had all our provisions with us in the car under the public shelter. I got lunch ready, Daniel threw in a line, but no fish yet.

Time for a wee stop!

After lunch we headed for the boat launching area where Daniel threw in another line catching a snapper and a cod. Almost 2.00pm we headed to the hatchery for a tour which was great.
An Aboriginal woman gave us an insight into the local area, pointing out the reason for the hatchery. Here we saw Barramundi, turtles, sea urchins, corals, coral fish and shells that were
solely being exported to Italy for buttons (2 tonne per year!).

On completion of the tour Daniel wanted to do some more fishing so we headed back the boat launching area. Again he threw in the line this time hooking a shark, trying to bring him in but just before beaching him it broke free getting away. Again he threw in another line again hooking another shark, a white pointer about a metre long. Enough fishing back to Cape Leveque for the night.

We caught up with John and Lynelle who were from Queensland and had spent the previous night at Middle Lagoon. We got together for a couple of happy hours before making our way to the barbecue for steak and a fire overlooking the bay as night fell and saw 4 meteorites flash through the stars.