“Wow” these last 3 weeks have been from beach to bush. We left Broom and headed south to Barn Hill at the top of eighty mile beach. It is a cattle station that has one property boundary on the Indian Ocean. “It was just amazing camping on a red cliff, walking down to a white sandy beach, to the bluest of blue water. Stayed a week, but no fish.

We then moved a little further south to Cape Keraudren at the bottom of eighty mile beach, another beachfront camp. An open beach that you can walk for miles and when the tide is in you can fish for whiting and “yes, yes, yes”. The fishing was good so we decided to stay a couple of extra days. Whiting, bream and shark were consumed.

Another couple of hundred km south on the Great Northern Hwy and we were at Coongan Pool. Good timing once again, got us a riverside bush camp for a couple of nights. Next day we unhitched the vans and went into Marble Bar. This town holds the record for the hottest town in Australia. “160 consecutive days over 38.7c or 100f”. There was a lot to see in this small town, the Comet Gold Mine and Museum, Chinaman’s Pool, the Marble Bar that crosses the Coongan River “a must see” and the SECRET Air Base WW2. We finished the day with a cold drink at the Iron Clad Hotel.