Geraldton and Denham

We only spent an overnight stay in Geraldton, at the Sunset Beach caravan park. This park was quite nice and i spoilt the girls by lashing out for an ensuite site .

The caravan park is right on the beach as can be seen in our previous post so we all had a great night sleep, away from any major roads (and road trains), to the sound of the waves on the beach.

When we got up in the morning, Caitlyn, Dad and i went for a walk on the beach but as it was high tide, there was not much beach. I was suppose to get up at 4:30am to look at the eclipse but as i was having such a good sleep, that did not happen.

We had a few things to do before we could head on up to Denham. Steve and Rhonda had called through a shopping list so with our caravans off of the ensuite sites and parked in caravan storage we headed off in to town to visit the HMAS Sydney memorial and the local Woolworths.

The Shrine was quite good and once reading the stories on the wall or remembrance it was clear why they had used seagulls in the dome.

Caitlyn was quite fond of the Lady here looking out over the sea and spent quite a bit of time holding her hand

Once we returned to the caravan park to pick up the vans we were on our way. It was an easy trip up to the Overlander roadhouse, where we had to ring ahead to Denham to order our escort into town.

Steve and Rhonda came out to meet us on the road and take us through town to their place. Denham seems to be a nice seaside village and it takes all of 2 mins to cruise the main street from roundabout to roundabout

We had a nice catch up on the first night, and we are sleeping inside so this was a very quiet night. We also spent most of the first day here in Denham relaxing and cleaning. Once we had had enough of this we went down to the main street for a walk.

We then took the drive out to the Ocean Park where we were able to see fish and shark feeding.

We had a nice barbeque with  everyone, including Belinda and Guy before heading off to bead for our second night here. We had an early wake up to look forward to as we were heading off to Monkey Mia to see the Dolphin Feeding.

When we got out to Monkey Mia it was to find a good crowd already gathering. There is a range of accommodation available out there from back packers and caravan sites through to hotel rooms and chalets. It did not take long before the dolphins arrived and we got some great photos before the guides allowed everyone down to the water. They then talked about the dolphins, monkey mia’s history and the feeding process before asking everyone to exit the water again for the feeding to begin.

We happened to be in luck today as Caitlyn got picked to feed with the very last fish in the guides bucket.

With the feeding over we went up to the cafe for a light brunch before we booked on to the Shotover catamaran for a sail in the bay looking for Dolphins, Turtles and Dugong. We did not see any Dugong but we did find everything else and had a great 2.5hrs out on a nice sunny, calm day.

With the sail over we had lunch before heading home. just as we were leaving monkey mia a small turtle decided to visit and swim around the jetty.

Our last destination for today was the Peron Homestead where they have a small museum and a great artesian fed hot tub.

There was a lot in this update, feel free to ask questions via the comments if i have glossed over anything to fast