Hamelin Pool, Nanga & Whalebone - May 3rd...



 

Our next stage of our trip took us to our first uncharted territory. Belinda drove for the first 120km as we headed for Hamelin Pool – where the oldest and simplest miro-organisms have lived over the last 3.5 billion years, the Stromatolites although amazing to think of how old they are, are overshadowed by the vast beauty of trillions of shells along this stretch of coast...... quite incredible. Pictured is our shadows at Shell Quarry at Hamelin Pool. Riley & Aiden bought some shells back to the camp site……. and made sand! Using dads hammer and some rocks which finally turned into many small rocks! This was a good distraction for Aiden who seemed to be having a meltdown about every 2 or 3 days, as he gets so tied in the late afternoon, something he will learn to adjust to over the next few months. I don’t think he actually sleeps very well as he spends so much time yelling out in middle of the night in his sleep, or playing with his cars!

 

 Now here is some advice for all you reading this, “You can’t swim at Hamelin Pool!” so we took a drive out to Nanga where the 4WD had its first blast on the beach.  We dropped in a finishing line .....still no luck. However the kids were so tired by 2pm we put a movie on in the car for the boys, whilst we enjoyed a relaxing afternoon on the beach, you know mum and dad relaxing time! We then pumped up the tires and went on our way back to Hamilon Pool, along the way we detoured down a tiny dirt track only to come around a bend and face to face with a Semi Trailer water tanker!!! If only you could have seen our faces, by the laughter from the truckie he thought it was pretty funny! Heading back we enjoyed Hamelin Pool sunset as pictured.

Following our trip to Nanga it had us packing up all our gear and moving to the Nanga Camp site, with a beach where you can swim & fish it was definitely more child friendly than Hamilon Pool......Bell caught our first fish, a baby flathead, which we sent back the deep blue sea.

Wednesday 4^th May found us free camping for the first time at the Whalebone campsite on the very edge of the beach, this was 33km south of Denham............with a huge colony of bush flies. That said it was one of the most scenic beaches along the coast and we parked literally 3 meters from the ocean edge! We spent the middle of the day inside the caravan watching National Geographic movies, Bell cooked a cake and played some games. We took a number of long walks along the waters edge to escape the flys, but they still managed to find us, even under our mozzie nets! However they magically disappeared at sunset.   Dawn, sunrise and sunset here is just fantastic, even the boys commented how beautiful it looked (see picture). Chris & I then spent the evening watching the billions of twinkling stars,.................. we were in the middle of nowhere. 

 

We then head to Denham the most Westerly town in Australia (26th parallel).

Did you know that Denham could have been the biggest tourist attraction in Australia. Once the main street was literally paved with pearl shell following over a century of pearling, until some Einstein thought it would be a good idea to lay a bitumen road straight over it!!

Enjoy the movie Hamelin Pool, Nanga & Whalebone