80 Mile Beach, Pardoo Station, Point Samson

Our little adventure since leaving Broome has taken us to 80 mile beach where we spent one night, to Pardoo Station where we spent a wonderful 10 days and now to Point Samson where we will spend a week or so. Have had some ups and some downs of late but really can't think of anywhere else I'd rather be right now (except of course at home with you Shas :-] ). The friends we've met we will keep in touch with, and hopefully they will come to Colac for a visit or we might meet them on the road again some day. Recently we've met Justin, Katherine and little Jed at Mary Pool (home is in Albury) and at Pardoo Station we met Dumpy and Robin (Albany, WA), Peter and Lorraine, Ron, and the Gray family (from Altona) - Brett, Georgie, Kyle and Emma and because of these wonderful people we stretched our stay from a few days to 10, only leaving in the end because we had no phone reception and I'm still waiting for Caz to have this baby!!

On the down side Chris lost his wallet at Pardoo with all his cards in it, so we had to sort all that out, then when we got to Point Samson we realised the hot water service was leaking and had to find someone to weld that for us. All fixed now, except it won't work on the power, only the gas for some reason. Stevo says "don't stress about it", so I'm trying not to, but you know me, I can't help but worry!

Cable beach (Broome)

80 mile beach, lots of beach but no fish for us!

Pardoo Station, loads of great shells, and the occasional dead tree!
At Pardoo Creek the kids went for a little walk and Laura got bogged in the mud...UP TO HER THIGHS! Would not have gotten out without Dad's help. Her brother was very supportive, as you can see.

Hey, check this out...a giant thredfin salmon from Pardoo!
Laura was a great fisher woman, she pulled in quite a few bream on this particular day. We also got a few whiting.

The locals at Pardoo were very friendly, especially this Jabiru who was there almost every day. Chris and I are fishing in the background.
A whale had washed up on the beach at Pardoo a few months ago and this was part of the skull we took the kids to see. They drew a big body in the sand behind it to imagine how big it would have been.
Emma and Laura collecting shells, they were inseparable and had a great time together. Even when Emma accidentally kicked Laura in the face and gave her a blood nose they were buddies!
Believe it or not this is Will (10) and his mate Kyle (13) looking to catch some live bait...the tall and the short of it you could say!

Because we decided to stay longer at Pardoo I had to nip into Port Hedland for some supplies. On the way I passed these "miners", about 20 or 30 spread out across the side of the road, some with faces and all wearing their hard hats!

So thanks to the Great White Hunter (Stevo) we now have a freezer full of fish - bream, whiting and salmon, oh and some shark too. Sure is nice to open it and see the results of Chris' hard work have FINALLY paid off!