Day 54 Friday 5th August

Day 54 Friday 5th August

We all decided that we needed to some washing in the morning. The water at Coral Bay is artesian water and quite hard and salty. I really don't mind showering in the water because it's always lovely and warm....even out of the cold taps. We have not hooked the vans up to this water as it wouldn't do the pipes etc any good. Instead we've been using the water in our tank sparingly. Coral Bay now has a desalination plant so scattered around the park are drinking water taps which is the desalinated water. Rob refilled the van tanks with this water several times so I could use the van's washing machine. He ceratinly did his weight lifting carting the water from the taps to the van. Julie left around 1.30pm, catching the bus to Broome. She should arrive in Broome tomorrow around 10am and will start her 9 day walk later in the afternoon. It's been fun having her stay with us, sleeping on the air-matress in our annex.  After lunch we all went down to the beach and spent the afternoon snorkeling and kayaking. The weather today was perfect for this with very little wind and calm conditions. Again the beautiful coral and fish were everywhere. The boys were  very interested when the charter fishing group came down to clean and fillet their catch. Huge fish everywhere, sitting in large crates of ice. This has been the pattern every afternoon. Even the family groups that go out to fish here, return with wonderful catches. In fact yesterday, Heather was watching a guy fillet a big tuna and he offered her a chunk because he couldn't use it all.