Day 74 | Boologooro Station, North west Coastal Highway: another evening, another bushcamp

94 km | zzOz total: 3,465 km

After a goodly time in Carnarvon, resting and recovering, it felt great to be back out on the road.

Maybe it was that bumper tailwind, maybe it was the opportunity to cease spending money willy-nilly.

Or, perhaps something to do with carrying my latest absurd purchase: a mask, snorkel and a very large pair of flippers.

Hasn’t been of use around these parts, the sea around Carnarvon is dominated by the mouth of the Gascoyne River, which while not seeming to be flowing, with just isolated pools in an otherwise mainly dry riverbed, still managed to discolour the Indian Ocean significantly, it’s sure muddy.

This new burden for my trailer will come in useful at Coral Bay, my next locality, where the bay is, err, filled with coral, and may have some transparency as usually associated with wide oceans.

Ningaloo Reef is a huge lump of coral stretching down the coast for close to 300kms, easily accessible from the shore, you can swim out to it.

This will be a major impediment to progress in the next weeks: after Coral Bay I’m making tracks to Exmouth and the joys of the Cape Range National Park, where you can camp right next to isolated beaches and enjoy the delights of the coral before breakfast.

Those flippers will come in handy.