Day 50 Monday 1st August

Day 50 Monday 1st August

We left our beautiful freecamp at 8.30am and headed for Coral Bay. We didn't get very far down the road before we were in a very long line of traffic that had stopped for roadworks. Rob and Paul got out of the vehicles and lined up ahead of us were at least 12 other vans and behind us the same. There were also, campervans and mobile homes, camper trailers etc. It again made us realise how many people are travelling on the roads, even in this more remote area of Western Australia. After a couple more roadwork stops we turned west towards Coral Bay. The boys were very pleased because we now had a strong tail wind and our fuel economy improved greatly. We arrived at Coral Bay just before lunch and the town was busy. The Caravan Park was full and there were people everywhere. Lyn and Steve were already in the park and had set up and Rob’s sister, Julie had also arrived earlier. She had taken the long trip in a bus from Broome to Coral Bay. Julie will be doing a special walk along the coast out from Broome, with a group of people and learning all about the Aboriginal ways and traditions. The walk is done over a week or so and they cover about 90kms, setting up tents to sleep in etc. We set up our vans, had some lunch and then met Hannah and Ray from Albany, friends of Heather and Paul. They had met them last year when they were travelling and had arranged to meet up again at Coral Bay, this year. Hannah and Ray had driven up from the south. We went for a walk down to the beach and the water looked gorgeous. People were swimming and snorkeling and we watched the fish feeding which occurs  3 times a week. Happy hour was lots of fun with the 6 of us plus Julie, Hannah and Ray and friends of Hannah and Ray's, Sharon and Chester.