Sandy Cape Escape
With last Thursday and Friday being pupil free days, we packed the camper, tinnie, our young one, mutt and headed north early on Thursday for Sandy Cape (just North of Jurien Bay). I knew the place would be packed, so it was a good move to get up before the crowds arrived. Well, we only just squeezed in on Thursday (it is first in, first served there and no bookings can be made). We set up our camper and hit the beach for an arvo of swimming…it was hot!
Early Friday morning we set up another families huge tent on our site, so it was ready for their arrival about 10pm that night. Other friends arrived 4pm and setup on our site aswell (yeah we packed them in). About 30 caravans came through that arvo/evening looking for a spot to no avail – the place was full.
Roast chicken in the new baby Q for Friday nights dinner.
Did I mention that it was hot. Spent most of the day in the water swimming and snorkeling and catching the odd whiting.
Friday night was an absolute scorcher….spray bottle, 12 volt fan helped a little, but the howling hot easterly did not allow for much sleep.
Saturday was, you guessed it HOT. Plenty of swimming again. The whiting were plentiful in the shallows and kept myself and the kids entertained and the mutt very happy as he got some fresh fish too. Woohoo, the seabreeze came in about 3pm, but ran out of puff about 5pm. By 6pm he ocean was dead calm.
The bay packed out with fisho’s - Herring and a few tailor were landed amongst the anglers;
But for me, it all looked too hard, so I kicked back;
Sunday was a cracker of a day. We packed for the day and headed south, 4wd’g along the beach to a nice bay, where an island is only 2oo metres from shore. The female seals lived here and the goal was to snorkel with them with the kids. We had a great time…and so did the seals.
Did some scurfing on the flat water and had a ball catching big bull herring on slices.
Our Mutt’s first time on a boat;
Swimming with the seals;
Kissing the lens;
I've got some video, which I'll sort over the next few days. Can't wait to get up there again soon.
Monday, pack up time, lunch, last swim and hit the road for home and a rest!
Cheers Pete
till
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Hey looks like you had a
Hey looks like you had a great weekend up there! The seals are pretty good fun and so nosey.
Adam Gallash
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chilled
Looks like an extremely 'chilled' out weekend, like your style Pete. :)
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chilling weekend Pete
my mutt (Rotti/ mastif-lab) loves the boat but she just keeps following me around whenever I move.
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Nice family getaway there Pete
Maybe Adam should invest in some fishwrecked rashees for all you divers out there.
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Looks like you had a great
Looks like you had a great time away with the family .as you said we now need to go to work and relax.nice one Pete
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Great family weekend away
Great family weekend away for you Pete.
How'd your 4 legged friend go in the boat? Can't wait to introduce ours in a boat soon!
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Haha, Ads. If I could
Haha, Ads. If I could have fitted into the esky..I would have; then I would of been chilled!
Yeah Damo, ours did then same - running up and down the beach chasing the boat. The old boy is feeling it now though..might have to get him an injection later in the week.
He was very anxious being lifted into the boat Daz and shook badly for a few minutes. When he realised that he wasn't going to be fed to the sharks (or what ever goes on in there head), he got his nose into the breeze and seemed to enjoy the ride...but I think he was grateful to get off.
Cheers Pete
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Our dog Banjo
Loves it in the boat. The bathtub with its flat floors is great and he is learning to climb in himself from a sandy beach with assistance from an esky.
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Update
Here is the video;
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/diving-lions
Cheers Pete
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would have been a wicked
would have been a wicked weekend for you and yours, it certainly looked busy along the beach, the fish wouldnt have much of a chance. one thing i didnt see there is that famous keg of yours
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Haha Russ, the keg would of
Haha Russ, the keg would of disappeared on the first day - it was hot!
Think the fish were safe - I was relaxing!
Cheers Pete
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Awesome
Great stuff Pete. Sounds like you had a great time. We'll be doing that sort of stuff with you in three years or so when we come back. First two purchases when we come back will be a 4WD and camper trailer....
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Its a date then Soupy....I
Its a date then Soupy....I could do with another 6 month trip just to get to Darwin!
Cheers Pete