We thoroughly enjoyed our time in Broome and civilisation and while I’m still feeling reluctant to go bush again I’ve been really looking forward to spending some time on the Dampier Peninsula. It seems there is lots of swimming to be had even though we are still in croc country.
Back on dirt and corrugation again but it’s not too bad and not for too long. We air down and the track gets narrower and deeper the further we go. It seems to me they must just keep grading the tracks and pushing a mound of red sandy dirt to the side of the road, making it feel as though the road is sunken in the landscape.
It’s not long before we catch a glimpse of the aqua blue ocean and we are on the hunt to find a campsite. The colours are stunning, the earth is a deep and warm red, the ocean calm and inviting aqua and the white sand completes the tri-colour landscape.
We settle on a free camp on the edge of the soft white sand. With a couple of people already bogged, other campers gave us warnings about the soft sand but we don’t venture too far into it and set up camp without incident.
The two days we spent here are just relaxing, schooling, beach walks, drone flights, whale watching and exploration of all the rock pools at low tide. Ken captured some wonderful footage of a mother and calf humpback whale with the drone. With another sighting at Cable Beach on our last night we are having great luck with viewing these magnificent animals.
The kids just took a little bit to warm up to the location, but in the end didn’t want to leave. Lulu had come down with a vomiting bug. She was pretty flat out for 24 hours but seemed to recover pretty quickly the next day. We’ve been hearing great things about a campsite further up the peninsula and are hoping to spend the rest of the week there so we decided to pack up and head north.
