Saturday 25th July 2020: Today we head to Exmouth where we will catch up with my sister Marg and Mark. We pulled out of the Wintersun Caravan Park at 8.30 and went into Carnarvon to fuel  up and go to the Saturday Market Day in the Civic Centre area. Very busy, seems all the tourists in the town had come to have a look - managed to get a good rockmelon, all we needed after buying at the plantation stall yesterday. Decided to have a coffee at the Bakery while we waited for the West to arrive at the newsagent at 9.30 - obviously the best place in town for coffee as the wait was much longer than it took for the paper to arrive.  Finally on the road, had lunch in the van at Minilya and finally into Exmouth by about 3.30.  We are staying at the RAC Exmouth Cape Caravan Park in a brand new section; the state of art camp kitchen only opening yesterday Marg said. Very spoilt tonight, Marg cooked dinner for us, just had to take our chairs down to their van - thank you, it was lovely. 

Sunday 26th July 2020: I've decided that this blog is not going to go into the same detail that I have in previous blogs as I have probably said it all before when we have travelled here on previous trips.  I must admit though that Exmouth has grown and there are many improvements since we were here last.  What used to be  the Visitors Centre is now an Arts Centre and Gallery and there's a new Visitors Centre just opposite this RAC park.  There's an Aquarium and a trendy Chocolate, come Coffee shop that we visited for our morning tea and then did the town walk.  We did a big walk on the town beach and then drove around the canals, of which there are many and the upmarket houses fronting them. Tonight we are going out for dinner at the 'Adrift' restaurant. Very popular, good service and food.

Monday 27th July 2020: Marg and Mark will be retracing their steps today, but seem quite happy redo the trip down into the Cape Range National Park. First stop is the Vlamingh Head Lighthouse and World War 11 interpretive project with lovely views to the beach with surfers all waiting for the best wave. This restored relic with original sand bags around it marks the site of the RAAF Air Warning Radar Station for the defence of the US Naval Base at Exmouth (Potshot). 

Turquoise Bay was our next stop - a stunning beach of clear water, surrounded by reef, forming a lagoon which is famous for its 'Drift' - a mecca for snorkelers - just hop in one end and the drift takes you along to the sandbar where you meet the waves coming in from the other direction - time to get out, walk back and do it all again.  There are quite large fish in the clear water - Mark was the only one to swim, the rest of us just enjoyed the peacefulness under the umbrella and our morning coffee. This is 61 kms from Exmouth and we went the other 30 k's down to Yardie Creek which is the only gorge in the Cape Range to be permanently full of water. Rock wallabies live in the ledges on the edge of the creek. 

Back up to the northern end of the Cape, past the Harold Holt Communication very low frequency transmitter - it is the world's largest, the towers stand at 387.6m and in 1992 ceased its US/Aust alliance when it was handed back to civilian contractors. At the end of the road we came to  the Fish Shack where we had fish tacos with mango salsa for lunch - a late one at that, just before the kitchen closed at 2.30.