Friday 12th October 2018 - We have now moved on to the Milligan Island Eco Campsite that is nestled amongst the bushland and sand dunes between the towns of Green Head and Leeman.

On the way we took a detour to Lake Indoon where we parked and had some lunch before taking a stroll along its white sandy shoreline. For a small lake it had a mixture of birds: Ring Necked Parrots, Black Winged Stilts, Silver Tipped sea gulls, Australian swans, Coots & Moorhens. We even came across a Bobtailed Skink that was scurrying across the sand.

After this short break we continued on to our new campsite that will be home for the next couple of days.

During our journey along the Turquoise coast the weather has been cooler than expected for this time of year and it's been dull, cloudy and overcast with the dark flat ocean. However, the landscape makes up for it with its white coloured sandy soil littered with small trees, shrubs, colourful wildflowers and grasses swaying in the breeze. It's a pretty drive.

The weather is forecast to rain later and strong winds for the following night, so taking advantage of the weather while we can we took a drive around the many coastal inlets taking in the scene of ploughed fields & countryside merging into the pure white sand dunes before it meets the mixture of turquoise and blue waters of the Indian Ocean. The inlet waters would look amazing if the sun were out!

We then continued on into the small coastal town of Green Head before heading back to camp and dinner.

Now here's something funny, well we laughed. We had bought a really good blueberry & apple pie in Dongara and to go with it a small carton of cream. On the first night we had a slice of pie and cream we commented on how runny the cream was and that it might as well be milk we were pouring.

On the second night we were still commenting about the lack of substance to the cream and on studying the carton… you guessed it, it was actually milk and not cream!! Well it did say full cream on the carton and we had not ever seen milk sold in such small quantities before. Anyway when we realised our error we couldn't stop laughing, we must have kept the camp entertained for ages.

Saturday 13th October 2018 - It poured with rain during the night and we've woken up to stormy skies but it is warm.

Today we are going into the Lesueur National Park that was named after Charles Alexandre Lesueur a natural history artist from Hamelin's 1801 expedition, to see the wildflowers and to hopefully between the showers walk a few of the trails.

Before we left we went for a quick walk to the small inlet beach we were camped beside and then headed off.

The park had an exceptional diverse range of plants that included some wild orchids and although we may have missed the wildflowers at their peak there was still an abundance of plants in bloom.

We drove around the 18.5km loop stopping along the way to look at the numerous plants when the weather permitted as it's a dull overcast and rainy day. So occasionally we sit for a while for the showers to pass of get soaked.

As well as the array of wildflowers we saw a couple of Western Bush Wallabies that had been sitting beside the road. After they had moved to the safety of the bush they sat for a while watching us watching them. Also seen were more Bobtail Skinks and some lizards of unknown origin and a number of bedraggled Carnaby's Black Cockatoo's sitting on top of a tree.

We spent the day dodging the showers but still managed to fit in a walk or two along the trails amongst the mostly undisturbed bushland with views of the countryside to the coast. Lesueur has a wide range of geological formations, landscapes and soil types varying from salt lakes to coastal dunes to reddish clay ridges that provides for the huge diversity of the amazing plants seen.

After an interesting day we made our way back to camp.