Good Morning Nanga Bay!
Low 13°c (46°F) – High 22°c
(72°F)
What a difference a day makes – hot water bottles the previous night – last
night the fan. It was quite warm, Kitty
was hot and so were we so a fan ran all night just moving the air around to
make it more comfortable. Instead of
letting the alarm do the hard work to wake us up, my stupid brain felt it was
its job to wake me every half hour or so from about 3.00am just to make sure we
hadn’t overslept. When the alarm went
off at 5.30am I was tired, as was Shane.
During the preceding 2.5 hours I heard the rain on the roof of the van –
not heavy but enough to wet everything, and I think we ended up talking
ourselves out of going, including the concern that half the kids and adults
we’ve been seeing over the last week have been coughing and sneezing and a
serious lack of social distancing when in a group. Neither of us can afford the time or the
health concerns to get Covid or the Flu so we’ve been trying to steer clear of
crowds as much as we can. We decided to
still go back to Monkey Mia but just not for the 7.45am feature, and rolled
over and went back to sleep.
Fast forward a couple of hours and a lot of noise outside the van woke
us up as families started packing down their campsites, kids said their
goodbyes and particular homage to a young child who was walking around the back
of our site using a plastic water container as a drum – at 7.30am.
Kitty had a really good sleep in and so by the time she got her day
started we were almost ready to head off for a drive around. Our plan was to visit any of the lookouts we
had missed yesterday after heading for Monkey Mia first and working our way back. Sadly the day was completely overcast so we
knew photo opportunities weren’t going to produce anything startling today.
On our arrival at Monkey Mia we were thrilled to find that a pod of 4
dolphins were swimming around the area adjacent to the beach and jetty and we
watched them for some time, taking photos and just generally enjoying the sense
of grace and fun these animals exhibited.
They came so close to the shoreline that you could be knee deep in water
and have been within arm’s reach. Inquisitively
popping up for a look around, they did at least 3 laps of the area while we
were there before moving out further into the bay. Having had our dolphin experience after all,
we wandered through the gift shop again and then back to the car to return to
camp via a few scenic stops.
Clouds parted and re-clustered for most of the trip producing such a
mixed bag of photo light. Mostly though
it was dull and photos didn’t do justice to the water or the shores. We did another trip into Denham (being
careful to stick to the speed limits around town) to once again top up with
fuel and grab a late lunch. We should
have stuck to the fuel as the pies we got from one of the cafes were stone cold
and having asked for plain pies, they bagged up steak, onion & mushroom and
sadly I don’t eat mushrooms. The vanilla
slice ended up being lunch along with some chicken bites that Shane picked up
when paying for the fuel.
Back at camp we were a little surprised to see that while 2/3 of the
camp had vacated this morning, the camp was only about half full tonight with only
a few new residents rolling in. Not
willing to risk another round of mosquito bites, I stayed at the van and Shane
went for a walk down the hill to the back of the park in the hope of some
sunset shots given the clouds that were still hanging around weren’t blocking
the view. Meanwhile Kitty caught up on
some sleep now much happier to be out of the car and able to relax on her blankets. Thankfully we finally had some decent sunset
pics as we’ve had so little cloud for the entire 2 months we’ve been away that
all the sunsets were looking pretty much the same to the point where most
nights we didn’t bother to try to take photos.
We have a bit of a drive tomorrow so will try to get a reasonably early
night and hope for a decent sleep.
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