N: 5/8 - 10/8 Cape Leveque

N: The road up to Cape Leveque was horrendous; the amount of swerving around the road to find the smooth bit was ridiculous, the road was a lot sandier then the Tanami which slowed us down, but added to the excitement which made the trip more interesting. We got to Beagle Bay missionary and stopped for lunch, also at Beagle bay was a church which its shrine was made up of pearl shells.

We got going and headed of on the last stretch, on arriving we were told that Cape Leveque boasted great swimming, fishing and snorkeling (at low tide).

After setting up camp we went down to the swimming beach to test the theory of great swimming, when we arrived at the beach after a walk over the board walk. The water was impossibly clear and warm.

The water as we get further north gets warmer. The next day fishing was tested and swimming we walked right around Cape Leveque to the fishing beach, we used squid as bait (see Dampier creek blog entry) we cast in and nothing until Dad felt the pull on his line he reeled as fast as he could and then let and continued to do so (he did this because the line he was using was not very strong at all, after being satisfied with the fishes physical strength the line broke what a pain in the ………. I gave up and went home empty handed, dad stayed on half an hour or so longer but to no prevail. We went back and relaxed in the hammock. The next day we attempted to snorkel at low tide as we told was the best time it sucked I knocked my shin on a rock it bleed and bleed. We tried fishing on the western beach which was closest to our camp. The waves were massive it literally pounded my line it to the dirt. We packed up and went to another spot on the fishing beach I cast in with dads rod while he prepared mine (he replaced the old line with new 25 pound line and because it is so big there you couldn’t get much line on the rod. Mum came and cast in her line “yawn” and wait hold on she got something, she reeled in a 28cm blue tusk fish to small chuck it back. That was all the excitement for the day, we came home once again.

The next day we made plans to drive down to the beach on an extremely sandy track it involved letting our tyres down to 18psi (the were all ready down to 24 at the front and 26 at the back) we drove down and thank goodness we didn’t get bogged, I caught a tiny something (Saddle Tailed Sea Perch?? Red Emperor??), we drove back empty handed once again and stayed our last night and left for Middle Lagoon. Where we set up camp on a extremely hot day, went for a swim, had an ice cream, had a shower, made a fire, cooked bread on the fire, went to bed, woke up, celebrated mums B’day with a massive breakfast.