Well I'm going to summarise the last 7 weeks and bring this blog up to date
We flew into Karratha on the 6th November and was greeted with the hottest weather I have ever been in, my first impressions of Karratha were that it was dry brown and HOT, but it has grown on me and I now see the beauty of this place.
We moved straight into our house and our furniture arrived about a month after us, so now the place feels more like home.
In the time we have been here the kids started school at Millars Well Primary which is pretty close to home, they have made some good friends. We have a hand full of good friends now which is good for us.
We have been to a few places locally
Point Samson, a lovely little coastal town that reminded me a lot of Waipu Cove, there is a pub on the beach front where you can sink a beer and have fish and chips at the end of a day at the beach.
Dampier is very close about 10mins away and boasts 42 stunning islands, and some of the best fishing WA has to offer apparently, also in Dampier is the port for Hamersley Iron, massive ships can be seen waiting out at sea to come in and the ships docked are monstrous. Makes our coastal tankers and crude ships that dock at marsden point look like dingys.....
Hearsons Cove, a lovely little beach where the desert reaches the shore, its very close to the LNG Plant where Sean works on the Burrup Peninsula, Only good when the tide is in though but makes for a spectacular scene when the moon is right and the tide is completely out I haven't witnessed it yet but they call this the stairway to the moon...
Cleaverville Beach, we went we saw we left, a lot of driving for a very rocky beach, good for fishing but no good for swimming.
40 mile beach, my favourite spot yet, beautiful sandy beach a bit if a drive to get there but well worth it, crystal clear blue waters and the wildlife is amazing, we saw a humongous stingray, 4 turtles and a octopus or squid, apparently if you go out there at night when the tide is low you can walk along the reef and pick up crayfish, I'm keen on that idea!!!
Miaree pool, lovely little oasis in the middle of an arid surrounding, didn't go swimming as it was too hot to be out of the car but is a popular spot for swimming on a not so hot day.
Attempted to go to the famous Jump up on the Burrup Peninsula, a treacherous 4WD track to some of the best beaches, We thought we drove to it, gave the landcruiser a bit of a work out just getting there but didn't do the jump up or what we thought was the jump up because we hadn't planned on doing it and weren't prepared with water and air compressor and supplies and stuff if we got stuck, so just walked it. later found out we were in the wrong place anyway so will have to revisit that area.
We have very limited photos up till now as we had lost our camera in Perth, but that has been replaced now so will be able to post some pictures when we go to these places again.
We are planning a trip down south in the next week to a place called Exmouth, about 5-6 hours away.
We flew into Karratha on the 6th November and was greeted with the hottest weather I have ever been in, my first impressions of Karratha were that it was dry brown and HOT, but it has grown on me and I now see the beauty of this place.
We moved straight into our house and our furniture arrived about a month after us, so now the place feels more like home.
In the time we have been here the kids started school at Millars Well Primary which is pretty close to home, they have made some good friends. We have a hand full of good friends now which is good for us.
We have been to a few places locally
Point Samson, a lovely little coastal town that reminded me a lot of Waipu Cove, there is a pub on the beach front where you can sink a beer and have fish and chips at the end of a day at the beach.
Dampier is very close about 10mins away and boasts 42 stunning islands, and some of the best fishing WA has to offer apparently, also in Dampier is the port for Hamersley Iron, massive ships can be seen waiting out at sea to come in and the ships docked are monstrous. Makes our coastal tankers and crude ships that dock at marsden point look like dingys.....
Hearsons Cove, a lovely little beach where the desert reaches the shore, its very close to the LNG Plant where Sean works on the Burrup Peninsula, Only good when the tide is in though but makes for a spectacular scene when the moon is right and the tide is completely out I haven't witnessed it yet but they call this the stairway to the moon...
Cleaverville Beach, we went we saw we left, a lot of driving for a very rocky beach, good for fishing but no good for swimming.
40 mile beach, my favourite spot yet, beautiful sandy beach a bit if a drive to get there but well worth it, crystal clear blue waters and the wildlife is amazing, we saw a humongous stingray, 4 turtles and a octopus or squid, apparently if you go out there at night when the tide is low you can walk along the reef and pick up crayfish, I'm keen on that idea!!!
Miaree pool, lovely little oasis in the middle of an arid surrounding, didn't go swimming as it was too hot to be out of the car but is a popular spot for swimming on a not so hot day.
Attempted to go to the famous Jump up on the Burrup Peninsula, a treacherous 4WD track to some of the best beaches, We thought we drove to it, gave the landcruiser a bit of a work out just getting there but didn't do the jump up or what we thought was the jump up because we hadn't planned on doing it and weren't prepared with water and air compressor and supplies and stuff if we got stuck, so just walked it. later found out we were in the wrong place anyway so will have to revisit that area.
We have very limited photos up till now as we had lost our camera in Perth, but that has been replaced now so will be able to post some pictures when we go to these places again.
We are planning a trip down south in the next week to a place called Exmouth, about 5-6 hours away.
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