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Steve Hazel Luke & Chelsea Visit Perth

Part 3 - The trip south - shelley beach, banksia camp, broke inlet

Albany

Steep cliffs, rough water

The famous Albany Gap

The view in the other direction

Get him behind the wheel and he is happy.  Blame the genes.

Albany Whale Museum

Kids explore the old boat

On the aft deck

Whale skeleton, I suppose a whaling station had a few of these kicking around.

Shelley Beach - a real find.

Setting up camp

Tinsel Toyota - plus the L plate we kept sneaking onto each others car.

Shelley beach had some rough seas

Which were of course great fun.

Waiting for the next wave

Not small.

An alternative use for Roo bars

Xmas on the beach!

Cooking Xmas dinner

Steve and Daniel

Sunset at Shelley

And sparklers by night

Out on a 4x4 expedition

The car park at the end of the sandy track

The beach at the end of the track

Nobody else around!

At the remote beach

Banksias on route

Heading for another remote beach

Stupendous views on cliff tops

Person gives scale of pic

Here we are at the end of the second track - another remote beach

Messing around on the remote beach

Steve and Hazel

Hazel and Daniel

It took us an hour by 4x4 to get to this remote beach on the track - yet it was next door to Shelley beach!
Walking would have been 15 minutes!  (But that's not the point)

On to Banksia Camp

About the camp.

The hut was taken, so we set up camp in Bay 5.

Oliver promptly spotted a frog, and nearly trod on a snake.

The 4x4 track down to the beach.  Saves carting your stuff down the cliff path.

The beach was fantastic.  See a video of the Banksia Camp Beach.

Banksia Camp Beach had a very kid friendly pool here

Daniel played in the sand for ages.

So did Oli!

Steve and Hazel on the surfy side of Banksia Camp Beach

Plucking up courage...

Because this surf was big!

Luke catches a wave

Luke and Pip did lots of surfing this trip

Waves a bit big but Chelsea and Oli had a go in the shallows too.

Jon rides in on a wave

Steves turn.

My turn to drive?  <incredulous look>

The final stretch to Broke Inlet - about 22km of 4x4 track to get here.

Well worth the distance though.

Some soft sand here to trap the unwary.

Huge seas rolling in.

Luke about to sit in the drivers seat - alone, for the first time I think.

Car still in one piece, time to head back.

Across the dunes...

The tree top walk!