Leaving Exmouth, we travelled the same roads as we did only a week or so previously when we raced inland to avoid the cyclone. The landscape heading east changed to beautiful red dirt with amazing rocky outcrops and mountains as well as purple, pink, yellow and white wild flowers starting to bloom on the sides of the road. We had a quick overnight stop at a freecamp with a few other vans and backpackers, and then an early start to drive to the mining town of Par...

Amazing to experience God's wonderful creation along this pristine coastline of the Cape Range National Park and Ningaloo Reef. We had a brief stop in Exmouth to top up our water, groceries and a coffee with our new friends from the station, Fran & Brian. From there we made our way to the Osprey Campground in the national park. Initially, we had planned to drive the track from Ningaloo Station to the national park through Yardie Creek - a distance of about ...

The cyclone seems to have cleared the air a bit, so after phoning Ningaloo Station to see if the roads were open, we headed back to the coast. Once we left the bitumen, the roads to the station and camping areas had a lot of water over them in places, so after admiring our clean van and car from the cyclonic rain, we were now covered in red mud! It was quite an interesting drive on narrow tracks to our beach camp at Winderabandi Point, and the first site given t...

I did pray for a westerly wind or storm to get rid of the flies, but God obviously has a sense of humour and decided a cyclone was needed! We decided to spend a night in Coral Bay to see what the cyclone was doing, and when the 'wise weather knowledge' people told us it was headed straight for Coral Bay, the campground evacuated pretty fast, including us, and we drove north-east inland to shelter in a rest area with about 10 other campers. Miraculously, we even...

Crossing the 'Tropic of Capricorn', we left the bitumen to find a campsite on the Ningaloo Reef at Warroora Station (pronounced 'Warra') - right on the beach! Paradise! It's so nice that we decided to stay for a week here, even though there are no facilities or water - we feel a bit like castaways on a deserted island! Mind you, up the other end of the beach it's like a 'mini-city' of about 15-20 caravans all lined up in a row (the long-term stays). So its been g...