So from where I left off…

After my amazing feeding the dolphins morning we spent all day chilling at the beautiful beach, sleeping, swimming, watching dolphins. Next thing you know Chris is running out of the water screaming bloody murder we assume a shark has attacked him but it turns out it was just a wee crap (probably a hermit crap) he says a big crap but I'm not so sure I believe him. Drama Queen. After the beach we hit the monkey bar we have tea and drinks there which is nice its an ocean front bar and we get to see the sunset so its pretty nice indeed! We then drink more goon of course with Amy and Sian as its farewell time as tomorrow they head south and we head north! They are two of the loveliest aussies we've met bless them so hopefully we'll catch up with them in Perth when we get back.

The next day we head for coral bay it's a nice early start to try to beat the sunshine as its so hot in the car past 10am as of course we have no aircon. On the road there is so many alive goats, cows , emus and dead kangaroos its so sad to see them. The cow, emus and goats are just stupid of course and run in front of the car or chase the car. Weird crazy wild animals. On the road we also see snakes and big lizards which is cool. Always a fan of seeing the real outback beasts. The dead roos stink of death it's a horrible smell. Urgh.

We get to overlander roadhouse and I bump into Arnie the really annoying german lad me and Adam used to hate in our room in the backpackers in Margs haha how random, I remember him saying he was leaving to go somewhere in the middle of nowhere but this is way more remote than I imagined! He tells me French Arthur my gay best friend wrote his car off on the west coast, he skidded on the road and flipped the car which was 6k so that's bad crack so I call Arthur as soon as I can (signal dependent) and he tells me its true but he's all good and no one was hurt and they ended up bussing it up the west coast so I'm glad he's good I love that boy!

We arrive finally in Coral Bay drive in the caravan park and no signs at all for reception so we drive around looking for it until a mad aussie builder kicks off at us saying we cant go down that way, apparently he's just laid fresh concrete that we are f***ing up with little Marina. So we're like f*** off dickhead and do a sign if you don't want people to drive down here we aint psychics. Stupid dick. We finally make it to reception and as we are driving to our non powered site we see Jess and Sam waving at us yey!! Despite no reception we have made it to the same caravan park and found each other, they say they saw the corsa and knew it had to be me as obviously it's the only one in WA road tripping… oops. We head straight to the beach for tradition purposes its nice and warm but we quickly decide coralbay is s***, as they is nothing there but the sea.

That night me and Chris have a feast of curry, rice and sausages, amazing backpackers we are!! We then have drinks with Jess n Sam and also some cool Austrian man Mattius who is here with his friend who has brought his autistic older brother with him (around 40) and his mam who has Alzheimer's (around maybe 65ish) good on him as they both seem like quite hard work, his mam continiuously wanders round as though shes looking for something and his brother just sits there making noises, hiding behind the fridges in the camp kitchens or picking up peoples cups bless him. I take it 40 years ago there wasn't much help for with austism which is why he is so severe with it now it's sad to watch but also nice that this man is taking them round Australia to experience stuff. One of life's truly nice people. We are eventually moved on from the campsite as its 10pm and its not rock n roll so we head to the beach to have drinks at one of the picnic stations, its lush catching up with Jess again as she leaves Oz in 2 weeks and wont be coming back ever as they didn't do there farm work so not sure when I'll see her again shes from a village down south near essex. She was offered sponsorship in Perth too in a wedding dress shop as she is a genuine trained designer in UK but she didn't want it as she doesn't want to stop here which is a shame. As It would have been a good opportunity for her. As we are having a few beverages this mad man comes on over lucky us, the first thing he tells us is how he's bi polar, schizophrenic and been sectioned 3 times in Australia and keeps been told to move from camping on the road (its illegal to camp anywhere here you have to be on a proper campsite or official rest area) wow what a delightful chap. Infact all I can say to him after this whole 'I'm a nutter speech' is 'wow' and then proceed to pretend he's not there, I figure by doing this I'm playing on his schizophrenia which is a bit wrong but Christ he is weird so I don't feel so bad about him questioning whether he is actually really here with us or not. We finally escape him when he goes on hunt for his phone in the sand? And we do a runner back to camp!

The next day was Wednesday we say goodbyes to Jess n Sam I think is so sad even though he's only met them twice as he had a bromance with Sam as I think travelling with me and Kat is too much sometimes. We spend the day at the beach again, we get to feed huge fish in the sea which is fun, especially when Chris is s*** on by a bird whilst doing it haha. Of course we make sure the whole crowd of fish feeders are informed so the whole beach basically laughs at him! I also see a sea snake and poop my pants and swim as fast as I can back to shore as they are very poisonous obviously as Straya is full of things trying to kill us backpackers. That night some aussie irish man called paddywhack crap or something does some 'motivational' singing by the camp kitchen. We all agree we've never been so depressed in our lives he was terrible and miserable. One of the lines in his song was 'you're your own best friend' FML. We meet a dull german couple who I swear everytime they speak to me an angel dies. Unfortunately for us we see them continuously on our trip up to Broome, the lady most definitely fancies Chris, who is continually caught starring at her huge boobs so her fella obviously hates Chris. And my god they are dull. They have left now today thank god!!

So its Halloween and we head on up to Exmouth, on our way out the car park Chris stalls the car 5 times so then assumes my car is knackered and we realise none of us know where to top up the water… awkward. Eventually he tries to drive again and it works I think he was half asleep (don't worry though we since made friends a with a racing car mechanic and he has helped us to top our water up so we are good) on the way to Exmouth we hit 2000km wow! Pretty far!

So we get to Exmouth and what do we discover? Only a real town!! How exciting! They have a Brumbys, 2 IGA's, restaurants, clothes shops wow its awesome we all look so happy to have arrived. Our Campsite is absolutely amazing the pool is basically amazing and we feel like we are on a real holiday in the Caribbean. We head straight to Turquoise Bay a national Park and the beach there is so beautiful I think maybe the best beach I have ever been too. It is amazingly gorgeous. The only problem is its so hot there and no where to cool down at all so it's a nightmare. Also there was a shark attack here just 2 days ago! So we end up heading back to the pool, this may be around the time Chris has burnt his lips they are massively swelled up like Leslie Ash that time its hilarious of course he isn't laughing but I certainly am it's so funny. He keeps snorkelling for like 6 hours a day which has not helped matters!

At the pool we meet Australian Jason, basically the nicest man in Oz it turns out he is a little legend. He works in the mines maybe 500km away and is on his week off so holidaying here as hes really from sunshine coast so checking out bits of WA while he can. So that night we all decide to party hard so we meet in the camp kitchen drinking goon of course, Jason brings his mate Terry they drink real drinks like beer and Jack n coke and we drink goon. We befriend some Germans and a Italian so they join us and we all get drunk, we decide to head to the pub at 10.30 of course its shut dammit we keep forgetting we're in WA, OOPS. On the way though me and Kat find a Chinese silk dragon dressing gown covered in fake? Blood. We decide its either someones cast of Halloween costume or a dead persons memorial. Either way we take it and wear it together up and down this road on the hunt for the pubs. The police drive past constantly but never stop its nice to see police prescence to be honest in Margs its just not there although there isn't ever really much trouble there just that time a man was kidnapped in broad daylight when I first got there.

So me and Kat pose a lot in this robe next to a rock that we think looks like a face! Its very halloweeny we get all the boys to pose for us for a photoshoot vogue would be proud of. So after we find no pubs we go back to camp kitchen and drink until we pass out I end up sleeping in the car as there was cockroaches near the tent on the floor and I go to bed after Kat and Chris and don't fancy my chances not waking them up in the tent as it has a lot of zips and it was pitch black, it turns out my car is so comfy to sleep in compared to cold hard campsite grounds so I am over the moon with a proper nights sleep.

The next day we decide to not do the beach as it's so hot and have a pool day instead which is of course amazing, the most strenuous part of my day is when I go to brumbys for a sandwich and sausage roll as it's so hot. I am completely not used to the heat at all these days , although I think its really hard though as camping means you have no escape from it at all as on a night it is so stuffy and hot too so you cannot get out of it at all unless you go to the IGA and hang around the frozen pizzas for a bit which really isn't something people should do if you want to be accepted in society. Which is a shame really to be fair.

That night we head to the beach for sunset but we don't just head to any beach we head to the turtle centre as its turtle hatching time of year. So we head there with Jason we see a beautiful sunset which is sweet we write 'I like turtles' on the beach in hope the ocean will carry the message back to the turtles to guarantee us some turtles later on. We do loadsa photos and have fun, start getting eaten by huge sandflies which is lovely, we then just sit and wait for the turtles, about 2 hours later we see nothing it's so cold and we are hungry so Jason disappears and comes back with some amazing picnic for us. Cheese and ham sandwiches and some cheese n cracker things what a legend he then points out two massive things on the sand behind us - it's only the bloody turtle oh my god. It was amazing. They were absolutely massive turtles I was so impressed it is such a mad thing to see, its so dark and you cant shine lights on them obviously as they will then just go back to the sea and not hatch their eggs. They spend so long digging then they are in these huge holes its like they are trying to get to England, they were like flicking sand on us with their little arms it is so funny the way they dig. They were so big though it is just mental we were all like oh my word. Speechless!

After watching a few for ages we left them to it as it was cold and we wanted beers to celebrate this amazing moment, on the way into the car a huntsman (potentially) runs over my foot - scary. And on the journey back it's the first and last time we have done night driving and a million Joeys scare by playing chicken on the roads so it's a slow journey back to the bottleo but of course we get there and its 10pm and its shut so there goes that plan. It's a shame as it means we cant have a farewell drink with Jason as we leave early tomorrow and he has been awesome with us he is such a nice man. That night when we were asleep he put some lovely instant noodles in the car for us as he had been talking about them he's a good egg!

One of the main jokes of the road trip is there was an abbo, a blister boy and a elephant foot. This is because I am now looking like Stevie Wonders love child, Chris's mouth is all swollen and blistered from the sunburn and Kat has a huge elephant foot as when it gets to hot her foot gets massive. Its our little jokes and we spend a lot of time drawing each other in these forms. They are clearly jealous of my amazing tanned skin and I am not jealous of their ailments at all.

So the next day is Saturday we make the drive to Dampier which is a mining village (perhaps) its right on the water which doesn't look nice and the campsite is a bit s*** of course but Dampier is actually sweet we go and watch the sunset, there is palm trees everywhere so it's cool and there is lots of families and groups having nice little picnics around us so it's pretty nice, seems to be a nice community kind of place. Our campsite has some funny b*****s for sure though! There is some brothers (Australian) around late 50s kind of age travelling round oz looking for word but also on a proper fishing trip everywhere they go, one is so nice and we have dinner with him - by dinner I mean we have Weetabix and he has lamb chops, potatoes and veg we are soo jealous! His brother spends a lot of the night kicking off at the nice one it's so funny but also scary as it sounds at one point like they might fight! They don't anyways so it's quite entertaining.

So we get up 6am and head off to eighty mile beach on route we see mini cyclones for real its mad to see but super cool, its really common this time of year and they aren't the kind to be able to pick your car up its mad, we are getting to see some awesome stuff on this trip for sure. We do a stop off for petrol in Port Hedland they also have a woolies there so we are happy and I bump into Zac who used to live and work in Margaret River it's so random, we knew he was there but it's a big place so it's mad! Really nice to see him though and he comments on my golden tan of course. We plan to have a stopover here on the way back so he says if he's not left by then he will take us to a good pub so that would be pretty cool.

We finally get to 80 mile beach which is the nicest campsite I have ever seen in my life, the beach is so beautiful the Indian Ocean is really stunning! But the campsite has some lovely calming effect on everyone and we all feel mega chilled out. The sea is lovely and shallow and the shells there are so pretty and different they have these weird shells with flower prints on they look like handmade shell jewellery it's so cool. There is also a lot of Kangaroos dotted about in the trees so me and Kat go on a Roo hunt and see so many they are too cute, they are small here compared the giants in Margaret River. We also see a humongous lizard there which is crazy it sounds like an elephant when it runs off. That night we watch another amazing WA sunset it's so pretty. At the campsite there is also a memorial to the Vietnamese army whole fought on eighty mile beach back in the day its really nice but also weird. That night we watch the inbetweeners movie in the car which is funny me and Chris are pissing ourselves throughout and Kat is like 'OMG English are mad!'

In the morning I go to the bathrooms and a teeny little roo is just chilling out right next to the bathrooms its so cute he poses for a picture the little sweetie before hopping off. About 4 hours later we make it to BROOME BABY!! We are over the moon so we head straight for a Maccas!! Such Mcdonalds obsessed people shame on us! Its how celebrate though isn't it?!

And the rest is for another day as I am shattered!! Much love xxxxxxxx