Cape Range NP

I headed back south from Onslow. My mp3 player decided to pack in in the day after I got my replacement headphones. I'm shocked at how much stuff is breaking.

I stopped at a petrol station to plug my phone in instead and of course the first highway patrol car I've seen in WA was there. I'm not sure if the rules about phones are as strict here. I think I'm just not allowed to touch it while riding, but can still listen to music. Anyway, the police were having lunch so I just did it.

That's the most interesting thing that happened today. I actually almost fell asleep while riding, which I didn't think was possible.

I'm staying at a sheep station on the way to Exmouth. It's very peaceful and quiet. I should get to Exmouth tomorrow and I reckon I'll stay there for a while.

In nz this is called a brothel... 

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I'm at Yardi homestead. It is a caravan park. Not even a hint of a homestead here. It's very nice and relatively cheap. The west coast is super expensive. Even the national park camps are $11, not that you can ever stay in them thanks to the stupid booking system. I'm camped on grass here.

The ride here was windy. The bike seems to handle the cross winds better without the windshield. This place is about 40km outside Exmouth. I came here and set up, then rode back to Exmouth for supplies. Exmouth seems pretty nice. A decent sized town on the coast. Still dusty as. On the way in I passed some new canal estates. I can't help but think they're going to end up as mud estates.

The clouds are currently building. I think it's going to rain! That'll be the first rain since the Daintree. And just now a man has yelled at his toddler son for touching my motorbike.
"NEVER TOUCH ANOTHER PERSON'S MOTORBIKE"
I didn't even know (or care). What a top dad!
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Today I rode down to Turquoise Bay. I believe this might be the WA coast people talk about so fondly. It is beautiful. The beach is anyway. Off the beach it isn't so pleasant.

I lazed around on the beach and went snorkelling. The coral reef begins a few metres from the beach and extends out a couple of hundred metres. The coral wasn't particularly colourful but it wasn't dead. The fish were plentiful, varied and pretty. I tried swimming out towards the outside edge of the reef. I was hoping to find a reef shark.

Instead I found a sea snake more than a metre long swimming straight for me. It was banded black and yellow and it swam like a normal snakes crawls. It was a lot of movement coming for me. I near shit myself. I swam away pretty bloody quickly and kept looking back to see if it was following me. That concluded the days snorkelling.

Tomorrow I'll try a different beach.

See the ultralight? 

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Just in Exmouth getting supplies. Went snorkeling again today. Going to stay here a few more days.