Fresh and ready to go we had an early start leaving our caravan shell behind we were on the road by 8 off to see the pinnacles. These are funny pointy rocks that have come out of the ground due to sand and water (there's a scientific reason we just can't remember)
Either way we had a good drive around this amazing site they were all different and some areas had none at all and others loads. We can only assume those ones haven't peeked their heads through yet. We took lots of photos on the SLR and got a good size comparison with Deb hugging one.
We got to the end of the track and found some wild Asians who were walking the track backwards and looked very very hot! We passed them by and then saw the cutest little wallaby and took some photos of him too.
Even at 9am it was roasting so we nipped back to the campsite cafe for breakfast. We all agreed it was the best breakfast we have had so far. We were going to eat outside but the flies in WA are crazy, you can't go anywhere without swatting them away from your ears eyes and nose it's gross. Us pommies do not enjoy this so we all decided it would be nicer to eat inside without flies and with air con. The cafe was decorated with some really cool signs one of which was grandmas favourite saying.
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
We wondered back to the van finished packing down and hit the road again. Deb was very excited as today was finally the day we would get to go sand boarding. After enjoying paddle boarding she was looking forward to it. We had to go to 2 shops before we finally found some half decent boards available for rent. We asked the lady behind the counter how many times people get up and down the dunes she said today was an average of 1-2 times! We didn't like the sound of that and it was challenge accepted to go more times. We drove down to the dunes dropped the caravan and took the 4WD onto the sand. We left it with the other cars at the bottom of the dunes we hauled ourselves up to the top of the first dune where some other people were and picked out our first slope. I thought it was WAAAY too Steep so Ian offered to go first. His first attempt wasn't far off ours in port Stephens and ended up in sandy failure at the bottom of the dune shortly followed by debs board and then Deb. Myles and I went together and I'm not sure why I seemed to go down this dune at a million miles an hour giving me an unusable gopro video due to my language haha! We dusted ourselves off and then looked back at the dune above us. It was MUCH steeper to get back up. We struggled up and Ian went off to get some water. We decided to do one more small dune back to the car which failed a bit so we all jumped back in the car for some well deserved aircon and water. Not being defeated we trekked back up the dune to another better slope. We all flew down with grace Deb getting her first successful go! At this point we kept seeing Ian in the 4WD attempting to get to the other side to collect us. We quickly decided this wasn't going to happen so scaled the dune using the boards to steady us and drag ourselves up the soft sand. Once we got to the top we boarded down to the bottom to try and find Ian and the car. Once we got there we saw the top of a 4WD not going too far. Myles went to investigate and yep it was Ian and the 4wd not quite stuck but not moving either. After some careful jiggling they managed to work their way out onto harder sand. Once we worked out where the hard sand was we were on! Ian drove us to the top of the hard sand and we only had to wonder across to the new slope and he would collect us at the bottom and start again. Deb and Laura decided to go first running up to the highest point they could. Laura managed to jump up where as Deb with shorter legs was struggling eventually we both balanced on the top for a photo Myles was taking from the bottom. We decided to set off which just didn't work we both slipped and crashed into eachother. This was hilarious at first and Laura tried to separate them knocking herself off and her leg ended up underneath Debs board which hurt tremendously. Myles has photo evidence of Lauras face which is hilarious but wasn't at the time. We both got ourselves back on our boards and finished the slope to the bottom where Laura had to be helped to the car and decided to stay there being that she couldn't walk. The swelling and bruising came up over the next two runs that Deb and Myles did. Deb and Ian did one more run before we all decided we were pooped and couldn't go anymore. We did a good hour and a bits worth so HA to all the panseys on tour busses who only did 2 runs on the smallest part of the hill. The thing I forgot to mention throughout this whole process was the Chinese couple on the top of the June with camera men doing part of their wedding Photoshoot in 40 degree heat. All in black! I'm sure the photos would have looked lovely but judging by the volume of flies and sheer heat it can't have been enjoyable for them. Why they weren't out there at 6am rather than 11 I will never know. Once we left the esky (ice box cooler) was emptied of some ice which was bagged onto the now swollen leg of Laura. After double checking the travel insurance we were covered for injury sand boarding so that was good news Incase it got worse. We dropped the boards back to the hire shop and got some icecreams to congratulate ourselves. We carried on to our last campsite from here which was around 14km outside of central Perth. It was gorgeous. We dropped the van got parked and headed off for woolworths while the boys tried to find yet another car wash to get rid of the sand from the car which wasn't meant to go on sand dunes! We got ourselves a feast of cold meats, cheeses and salad to help finish off everything we had in the van for our last evening. Next to our van was a big picnic table and duck pond so we enjoyed that. When we got back from woolworths there was a pet rabbit on our site. We gave it a little stroke and had no idea where it had come from so left it too it's own devices and abandoned the food into the fridge to go for a swim in the pool! It was freezing as the shade had come over the pool but this didn't stop Myles or Deb jumping in straight away eventually Laura joined them but ended up in the warm jacuzzi spa. We had an amazing last camp dinner lots of chatting and drinking before our last night in the van.
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