Exmouth and Cape Range

Time to leave the wilderness of the station via the dry weather route and move on to another equally beautiful wilderness in Cape Range National Park. The park offered fairly large sites nicely situated and in small groups so as to retain some sense of the place. Unfortunately we could only secure one night in the National Park and spent the following couple of days in the Lighthouse caravan park, fairly average accommodation. By now we had got used to poor quality water supplies and all our drinking water came from bottled sources, this approach extends the effective tank size of the van from 180L to whatever you want but a little over 200L was common for us.

Exmouth is set up for both support of the Defence Forces and Tourism. Good water is available at the visitors centre. We ate out at one of half a dozen local restaurants, Kennedy St, had to mark them down on their steaks but otherwise it was good.   Excellent caravan spares business helped us out with a number of, normally, hard to get items.

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The sign at the homestead indicating the main road out was closed.
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The beach at Cape Range
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The flora in the National Park was more varied than found on the stations.
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More beach at Cape Range adjacent to camp ground
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Looking down on the caravan park from lighthouse hill. Out to sea you make out gas and oil rigs at night.
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You can just see the defence radio installation in this picture, must be very long wavelength.

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