Today we are exploring the East coast of Exmouth, the gulf side. While heading down south, we pass a car flashing lights, we think it is the cops and my Darl slows down and puts on his seat belt. But it was a huge wedge tail eagle in the middle of the right lane, feasting on some road kill, awesome but I miss the shot again. We head down to start at the bottom and work our way back to town, first stop is Learmonth jetty, where we find Bill and Sylvia out fishing. Lots of bream, mostly undersize, but a few elusive big ones swimming around. While we there, Bill snags a shovel nose shark.
What a bargain, we got a bit of entertainment out of this stop, the shark put up a good fight and won in the end, with a snapped line. Bill and Sylvia live 6 months in Perth and 6 months in Exmouth, have been doing it for years, good on them. They gave us some good advice on what lies ahead price wise with fuel and food between here and Carnarvon.
We continue back to Exmouth and into Charles Knife Road Canyons, an awesome trek along the ridges of the range up to the Thomas Carter Lookout. A few kms of bitumen but in the most part, a gravel road, not too bad, but the road up to lookout was one of those 4WD experiences again. The poor old ute getting another workout and almost reached boiling point. There are several lookouts along the way all providing stunning views. Couldn't help this one, of the face, almost see two there if you use your imagination.
This view looking back into the gulf. Airport to the right of the pic. What a picture perfect day, it was a warm one though. We almost spent 2 hours here, by the time we did a couple little walks and stopped at just about all the view points.
Making our way back to Exmouth next stop is Shothole Canyon Road, leading to a picnic area. The canyon was named after the shotholes left by seismographic explosions during oil searches in the 1950's. This is a drive through the gorge floor.
The colours and formations are quite spectacular. We enjoyed our day out sight seeing. We also visited Pebble Beach and Krait memorial and had a look at the new man made canal estate near the new looking mariner. A lot of new homes being built here. We have been told this is going to be base of the fly in fly out staff for Panawonica and Tom Price mines..... Last night in town, we have been on the road for 5 months today, so treat ourselves to a nice feed of fish and chips at Blue Lips in the shopping centre. One serve is 2 pieces of fish, so does us nicely.
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