Day 34 Saturday 16th July

Day 34 Saturday 16th July

Heather and Paul were off early this morning, heading north along the Cape Leveque Road to catch up with friends at Beagle Bay. I had a late start staying in bed for a while and reading. Rob and I drove out to the deep water port to check out what was happening there. Yesterday a large cruise ship was in port, today it was a livestock ship. Apparently 10,000 cattle could be loaded onto the ship but it was going to be a long, slow process. The jetty could only cope with each road train with one trailer on it. The trailers only held 50 head of cattle. You could see 3 trucks on the jetty at one time, one waiting to  come back, one loading and the other waiting to load. From here we drove along a dirt road that followed the coastline. It was very beautiful along  Reddell Beach which was named after a sea capatin who was murdered here in a mutiny in 1899. The track took us to the Gantheame Point lighthouse and also the spot where at low tide, you can see dinosaur footprints in the rocks. We walked out to the rocks and saw the cement replica of the footprints as the tide was not low enough. After lunch, we caught up with Lyn and Steve and visited the Japanese and Chinese cemetery. We were going to go to the museum too but to the boys relief it was closed! We did a bit of shopping but again most of the shops had closed early in the afternoon. Heather and Paul were invited to stay at Beagle Bay with their friends so we had a quiet night, watching the footy.