7th June 2021 Karratha

Very windy and cloudy when we woke but at least it's  not cold.

With a day like today we decided to go down to 40 mile beach, it is 60 kms south of Karratha and where we are thinking of going during the school holidays, we have been told that it was packed out.

As we drove in we noted how much work had been done to the road, it was always badly corrugated with potholes, this time while still gravel it was perfect.

When we drove up to the day use are we could see that there was empty spaces everywhere.

The wind was really fetching it but that didn't stop us from going for a walk.

The tide was very low so we walked down along the edge of the mangroves heading for the southern beach end.

It was a bit more sheltered from the wind behind the mangroves which made it a pleasant walk, we came across some skeletons of big fish somewhere and 2 large painted crayfish.

I found some nice shells then at the turnback we had a rest, drink of water and headed back.

We noticed some good camp spots down along the bank, 67 and 68 look the go if they are still empty when we go there, there has been a lot of work leveling and clearing areas.

When we got back to the truck it was blowing so hard we decided to have our picnic in the truck overlooking the water. The walk was approximately 6km give or take a step.

It must be that time of the year as there are Sturt Desert Pea out in flower everywhere,nice to see them along the banks above the mangroves.

Had a change for dinner I cooked curried chicken and rice.