Today
we discovered a little paradise on the west coast. Half way between Port Hedland and Eighty Mile
Beach is Cape Keraudren. Anywhere we can
set up camp overlooking the beach is our idea of heaven…
The first thing we noticed (after the outstanding view) is the birdlife here. The beach was chock full of shore birds and the dunes were full of finches and fairy-wrens and white-eyes and spinifex birds…
Unfortunately, after the view, then the bird life, we then
noticed the sand flies… there were swarms of them. If it wasn’t for those pesky sand flies Cape
Keraudren could easily have become one of our favourite places… It still rates
pretty highly, it’s just a shame…
After setting up camp we headed straight down to the beach
for an explore. We didn’t manage to get
far, there were so many birds to check out.
The binoculars got a work out…
There were loads of clam shells exposed on the rock shelves. Megan discovered the hard way that when you approach one they spit water at you…
This poor octopus got prodded several times to make him squirt some ink and swim away. We love everything about octopus… they are the coolest masters of disguise. Check out the difference between this one when it swims compared to when it parks up on the sandy bottom.
We followed the rock pools for quite a way up the beach before we stumbled across this wall. Apparently it’s part of a rabbit proof fence…
Once again back at camp we found a tin can someone had tied to the fence. There is a massive population of zebra finches that live around the camp. Their nests are everywhere… apparently this tin can is good enough. There was no toilet paper in the toilets because a finch had made its nest in the paper holder…
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