Our first night was at Point Samson, we decided to go for ultimate luxury and treat ourselves to an ensuite site. For those not in the know it is a concrete slab with a little shed that houses your own private toilet and shower, some of these sites are pretty fancy and some are not. We were definitely in the not side of the equation as I think a WW2 pillbox would have been more fancy. Ohh and as you can see it was howling wind the whole time so not much sleep as a 2am rescue of the awning had to be performed.
From the Point we headed to 80 mile beach and this is why there is a lot of driving as WA is a big place. Some of the rest areas were excellent and even had their own management there to great you as you came in for a lunch stop.
We kept heading north to 80 mile beach and kept hearing funny rumours about no swimming due to sharks. Now we dismissed these due to the fact that West Australians are terrified of sharks and our reckoning was someone saw a fin 10 years ago and they had not got over the fright quite yet.
So we rolled into 80 mile beach caravan park which was excellent gave each other a high 5 and drove the car down onto the beach for a bit of sun and swimming. On goes the cossies Gen thought she would get a couple of photos before a dip then we see this. Yep the legends are true and this fella was about 5 meters from shore and actually came in closer when Gen went down for a photo so we retreated about 50 meters above the high water mark just to be safe. We are now true West Australians as all we have talked about since is that bloody shark.
Apart from the natives 80 mile did have some lovely views
So we have now made it to Broome for a bit of shopping and a lot of laying by the pool to chill out before our next destination.
Our new favourite swimming hole Sans Sharks
We will post some more after the Gibb River Road
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