We enjoyed a few days staying at the “Anchorage Resort” caravan park at Kalbarri. “Anchorage” was a fair description of the caravan park as it was located over the road from the river with lovely views. “Resort” was a bit of a stretch, although it did have a nice pool we enjoyed cooling off in during the heat of the day.The first day was spent relaxing around the camp site and swimming in the pool. I took the kids for a late afternoon fish. Punto (kid’s nickname for David) had warned us that there were no fish in Kalbarri, and I would agree (good excuse for not catching anything). I put all the teachings from Punto into use, and managed to lose only one line. I knew I should have done 7 turns, not 6 as Punto recommended.
During the evening of our second night the Serisier’s (Sam, Kate, Sophie, Tom, Emily and Fred)finally caught up with us. It was like watching a road train arrive - lights, roar of the engine, huge car/ caravan. Nick will be much relieved as he has been asking us hourly as to when they will catch up with us.
In the morning I took all the girls down to the pelican feeding in the morning which had been heavily promoted by the tourist office. 
There were over 100 people milling around expectantly for the frenzy. Unfortunately, all but one pelican had headed to Lake Eyre, so to call it a disappointment was an understatement. The one remaining pelican had to fight with a mass of seagulls and didn’t manage to catch many fish (might have been because of the chain around it’s leg). The hostess tried to entertain the crowd with ghoulish stories of local drownings and limbs washing ashore. The kids were put to good use as Sammy threw some fish, and Sophie was sent into the crowd to collect money for the hostess’s retirement fund pelican food.
We all headed out to the gorges around lunchtime to check them out. By this time the day had become extremely hot so we didn’t linger out there too long but we enjoyed the trip anyway. In the parking lot at the gorge, Sam somehow managed to whip up a refreshing banana smoothie for everyone out of the back of their car. I can see a new standard of camp catering is being set.
There were over 100 people milling around expectantly for the frenzy. Unfortunately, all but one pelican had headed to Lake Eyre, so to call it a disappointment was an understatement. The one remaining pelican had to fight with a mass of seagulls and didn’t manage to catch many fish (might have been because of the chain around it’s leg). The hostess tried to entertain the crowd with ghoulish stories of local drownings and limbs washing ashore. The kids were put to good use as Sammy threw some fish, and Sophie was sent into the crowd to collect money for the hostess’s retirement fund pelican food.
We all headed out to the gorges around lunchtime to check them out. By this time the day had become extremely hot so we didn’t linger out there too long but we enjoyed the trip anyway. In the parking lot at the gorge, Sam somehow managed to whip up a refreshing banana smoothie for everyone out of the back of their car. I can see a new standard of camp catering is being set.
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