So time to put the other half up...but dont worry this still isnt the end!

Ok i dont think this one is quite as long as the other but like the title says i havent finished writting yet!! 

I left Kalbarri and headed towards Monkey Mia, it was a rather easy drive, nothing too extreme. It felt like a long drive but then the sight of the sea finally appeared and it was one of the best views that I have seen for a while, bright turquoise sea and lovely looking beach, but it was still another hour or so until I reached the camp site. When I got to the camp site I realised it was a full on resort and it was stunning (the type of place that you would take your kids to and they could just be let loss while you relax on the beach or at the bar. So you can understand why I thought $15 a night was cheap as chips!!! $30 for two nights I was rather happy. After about 2 hours I went back to my car and a man runs over to me and says can you take me to the airport as I fell asleep and have a flight tour to go on in 30 minutes, the airport was only about 15 minutes away so I thought why not I don’t have anything else to do. So once I got him there he told me to meet him at the bar at 4 and he would buy us a bottle of bubbly…there was no way I was going to turn this offer down!! Haha. So true to his word we met at the bar at 4 had a bottle of bubbly then he cooked a BBQ for us both which was lovely considering I had been living off noodles and porridge! It’s like being back on Raleigh. Then next thing I know it is 10 in the evening and we have gotten through another 2 bottles. Good times. The only bad thing is, is that he then wouldn’t leave me alone, he was a nice enough guy but there is a point when you realise you should move on. Never mind he kept me entertained (and not in a rude way before any of you put up any jokes!!). The next day I watched the dolphin feeding and they came right up close to you, then I went on a 4 hour boat cruise to do some wildlife watching where we saw a manta ray, tiger shark, turtles, and some other cool things. I had the afternoon to myself but then when I went back to the car again I had a couple of girls come up to me and ask if they could get a lift out of monkey mia with me, when I leave. So I said sure, which then meant I had to tidy out my car as I made it a tip. Especially as I then had one of their friends come over to me and also ask me for a lift, I wasn’t too sure about having 3 people in my car because I wasn’t sure if we would all fit, but I said yes because he was hot!! Haha. In the evening I went back onto the boat to go on the sunset cruise which was fantastic, an hour and a half on the boat watching the sun go down, couldn’t get much better than that!! So the next morning we somehow managed to fit everything into the car, even though we had to put bags in the foot well…this was going to be a very uncomfortable trip I could tell. But anyway off we went heading out of monkey mia, first stop petrol station which we only just made it to, I had less petrol then I thought I did. When we left the petrol station Robin suddenly goes “where did I put my newspaper?” then we realised we left it on top of the car. Thankfully we had only gone just down the road and I turned round and there it was on the road still in tack. But wait…what is that coming from the other direction? Only a bloody road train, with a tot of his horn he drove past and newspapers went flying everywhere. Luckily the poster that he wanted from it was still intact and then the rest went in the bin.

Next stop Coral Bay. I originally wasn’t going to be stopping here I was going to be stopping in Carnavon instead. I’m glad we did stop here as it is a beautiful seaside town, tiny as anything but lovely none the less. It was at this camp site that we met up with another car with 5 people in it. Now I was travelling with a good mix of people, I was with French, German, Swedish and Danish! The next day we had a very short drive to Exmouth. When we first got there it looked rubbish there was nothing in the town and it wasn’t even very pretty. I had heard mixed reviews on the place before I got there and again this is somewhere that I wasn’t going to be going if I was by myself…however we kept driving and eventually drove into the national park where we had heard that there was some stunning beaches and we also found out that we could camp for just $7 each. Now I could see why people love Exmouth and why others don’t as I’m guessing not everyone makes the drive through to the national park. We spent the day on the beach and did some fishing which we later found out was illegal in the part that we were in, and we could have got fined $2000 each! Opps, but never mind we had caught them now, so we hid them and then when we got into camp we built a fire and cooked them…yes that’s right I ate fish and I enjoyed it! Freshly caught fish cooked on an open fire! And again bit later on we found out that because of the time of year it was an illegal fire!! So we only done a few things wrong that day. After an early start we had a long drive to get to Karratha, I was kind of annoyed by this as I really wanted to go to Dampier because of the Red Dog legend but I suppose it just gives me another reason to head back to Australia at some point! When we got to Karratha we went into the main town and first stop was McDonald’s as we knew they had free Wi-Fi and we all wanted one. After this we set up camp at a road house (which is just a petrol station which does meals and where truckers stop for the night). During the night I was suddenly awakened by the feeling that my tent was about to take off with me in it. So I stretched out to all four corners to hold it down. Shortly after, the wind stopped and some of the others got out their tent as a few of their things had blown away. In the morning a few of us were talking and we decided that it was a tornado that went through as during the day before we had seen a few out in the distance. We even had a truck driver come over to us and bring back our camp chairs that no one had realised had gone missing!! Can’t believe I was actually in a tornado…albeit a small one!