18th May 2016 Our body clocks have become adjusted to waking at around 5/5.30am, at around sunrise. It's lovely getting outside and having some time before the heat really kicks in. It only drops in temperature to the mid 20's overnight and the days are around 36 degrees. Today we are unsuccessful in re-booking another night in the caravan park, as our site is booked by others. We could relocate within the park, however are keen to find a nicer park wit...

13th May 2016 We decided to bid farewell to Cable Beach and drive onto Derby and start the Gibb the following day. We had one last wonder down Cable Beach. It's such a lovely beach and cliff setting, unfortunately this is probably the last beach we will have this trip, it's going to be croc infested rivers and red dirt from now on! The drive to Derby is only a couple of hours. In Derby we visit the jetty, it's an odd shape compared with other jetties we have...

Tuesday 10th May 2016 We arrived at Gantheaume Point at 6.30am, it's 15 minutes off low tide. We climb down the rocky cliff and search for the fossilised Theropod Dinosaur footprints. They weren't too hard to find with the aid of the map. Some of the footprints were very clear and showed a distinct walk. We hook the van back up and head off North towards Cape Leveque. We pull into our planned overnight spot "Buckley's camp", our plan was to park the van...

Thursday 5th May 2016 We say farewell this morning to Red Dog, Dampier & Karratha. A short drive sees us in Port Sampson. Port Sampson has a marine sanctuary along one part of its coast line, it then wraps around the rocks into a small man made marina. 400 meters of shore, just off the entrance to the marina is a ship wreck. Beside the marina there are mangroves where the boys put out their crab nets, we are hoping for mud crabs. There is also a larg...

Monday 2nd May 2016 Soon after departing Exmouth as we headed in a North Easterly direction the real red dirt starts appearing. Some aspects are like red sand dunes, others are rocky outcrops and then flat open plains. We have a long driving day today, 500kms. Over this distance the only civilisation is two roadhouses (these offer fuel, basic foods and a dusty caravan park). The price of LPG in these road houses is dearer than petrol (the gas refineries are ...