Woke up to a heavy fog and wandered down to the beach to check it out.
Determined to make the most of Wally’s capabilities, we headed down to the Cheyne Beach local store to check with the locals about the 4wd driving in the area. We have a book “Top 50 4WD trips in WA” which said there was a must see trip near Cheyne Beach point rated green which meant Wally was more than capable just a matter of whether the drivers were. The lady at the shop said it was a great drive, however, a bit overgrown and only for the confident 4wd driver. As we did not (more specifically me) fall into the confident category we thought we should double check with David and Libby. So gave David a call and he said nice drive if you want to trash your car. Libby said a good drive but a bit “hairy”. That did it for me. So Cheyne point was a no go even though Tim was still interested. Tim thought Sam and Kate probably would have done it towing their caravan. Still didn’t convince me. In the end we decided to go for a drive that wasn’t in our top 50 book but had been recommended by the camp host at our campsite. Needless to say the track wasn’t as easy had we had been lead to believe. Wally got a real work out and Tim got some good sand driving experience. Got lost and ended up on a beach that hadn’t been noted on our map. Luckily there were some fishermen on the beach that very kindly pointed us in the right direction. So we made it back to the gravel road an hour later having navigated through narrow sandy tracks, beach and overgrown bush path.
Saw a few kangaroos hopping on the path in front of us. Again I have to question my enthusiasm for 4wd driving. I think I’d much rather go on these drives with someone who is experienced and can help us get out of any mischief. Coward.
Since we both felt we needed a drink after our 4wd experience we headed into Albany to do a bit of food shopping and a medicinal wine. Back to the campsite to cook up dinner. As the evening settled in and we sat around the table eating dinner, a loud buzzing could be heard. Then “ping” a large beatle hit the side of my plate and then settled on my pasta. Then another and another. Beatles were raining on us. Lara and I scarpered off to eat dinner in the car to the sound of beatles falling on the windscreen and roof. Love the wild life. The others wandered outside of the car taking pleasure in stepping on beatles. After awhile. the number of beatles got too much for the others and we all ended up in the car until the beatle rain had stopped.
Determined to make the most of Wally’s capabilities, we headed down to the Cheyne Beach local store to check with the locals about the 4wd driving in the area. We have a book “Top 50 4WD trips in WA” which said there was a must see trip near Cheyne Beach point rated green which meant Wally was more than capable just a matter of whether the drivers were. The lady at the shop said it was a great drive, however, a bit overgrown and only for the confident 4wd driver. As we did not (more specifically me) fall into the confident category we thought we should double check with David and Libby. So gave David a call and he said nice drive if you want to trash your car. Libby said a good drive but a bit “hairy”. That did it for me. So Cheyne point was a no go even though Tim was still interested. Tim thought Sam and Kate probably would have done it towing their caravan. Still didn’t convince me. In the end we decided to go for a drive that wasn’t in our top 50 book but had been recommended by the camp host at our campsite. Needless to say the track wasn’t as easy had we had been lead to believe. Wally got a real work out and Tim got some good sand driving experience. Got lost and ended up on a beach that hadn’t been noted on our map. Luckily there were some fishermen on the beach that very kindly pointed us in the right direction. So we made it back to the gravel road an hour later having navigated through narrow sandy tracks, beach and overgrown bush path.
Saw a few kangaroos hopping on the path in front of us. Again I have to question my enthusiasm for 4wd driving. I think I’d much rather go on these drives with someone who is experienced and can help us get out of any mischief. Coward.Since we both felt we needed a drink after our 4wd experience we headed into Albany to do a bit of food shopping and a medicinal wine. Back to the campsite to cook up dinner. As the evening settled in and we sat around the table eating dinner, a loud buzzing could be heard. Then “ping” a large beatle hit the side of my plate and then settled on my pasta. Then another and another. Beatles were raining on us. Lara and I scarpered off to eat dinner in the car to the sound of beatles falling on the windscreen and roof. Love the wild life. The others wandered outside of the car taking pleasure in stepping on beatles. After awhile. the number of beatles got too much for the others and we all ended up in the car until the beatle rain had stopped.
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