Now I have them for you: postcard pictures as you might have seen on cards from the carribian. But this time it's real for me and every time I stood on a new beach there in the Cape Range Nationalpark (a few kilometers from Exmouth) or on Coral Bay (between Exmouth and Carnavon), I thought „I must be in paradise...“ It is just absolutely fantastic. For swimming such as for snorkeling or long walks along these unreal beaches. Unfortunately, it was extremly windy all the five days we stayed in the NP and in Coral Bay. Camping next to the beach is nice, but for me there is a point where I think I will get crazy with that wind. There's no place to hide from it. Wuhaaaaa!



Especially Turquoise Bay is a great spot for snorcheling – you can access the Ningaloo Reef directly from the beach – just step in and swim for 20 meters and it is there. Hundreds of fish, octopus, turtles etc. Pity I don't have an underwater camera. I might get one of those use-once-and-throw-away cameras before we go on down south to coral bay.



I have buried the idea to learn diving for the moment. Pity, but I cannot afford to do it at the moment. Maybe I should go for some fruitpicking when I arrive in Carnavon – they have many jobs at the moment it seems. Well, there's a lot to see just with snorchel and fins (german: Schwimmflossen) – so I'll have to do that. And snorcheling gear is definitely not as expensive as a diving course... ;-)

Karijini Nationalpark is supposed to be one of the most beautiful NPs here in Western Austalia. We don't know that, of course, as we haven't seen them all. But we wanted to go there anyway. From Port Hedland Karijini is approximately 330 kilometers inland. Nor far in australian mesurements... As in so many other places all over Australia you can do mainly one thing there: Have long or short walks at different gorges, along cliffs and trough creeks. Stunning rock formations.



In Karijini there are also wonderful waterfall pools. Swimming is no problem – no crocodiles and no dangerous animals at all. The water is a bit cold but I jump in whenever I get the chance to do so. Very refreshing and it makes you feel like being in a little paradise. :-)

We left Broome in pouring rain on Wednesday morning towards Port Hedland. Brit, Gaelle (a french girl we take with us) and me were quite excited about that rain. We wanted to stop at the 80 mile beach for a swim in the afternoon and it did not look like it at all. But when we arrived there it was better. We did not swim then because the tide was very low and the water so far away – but just to be there was amazing. Beach wherever you look. Wow.



That beach is nearly 200 kilometers long but it can only be accessed via one little unsealed road. So Freddy managed his first unsealed road bravely – but even if it is only for 10 kilometers you think it never ends. Very bumpy and it was not even a „4WD only“ road...



On the highway you meet dead kangaroos ever few kilometers – if you don't hit one yourself, others will. We have been lucky so far. This one was already dead but we decided to take a photo and pretend it was „ours“... ;-)