Cape to Cape Part 2

Julie picked us up from Prevelly Caravan Park. When we found out she lives 3km North of JulieGracetown, where we had just come from, we felt a bit guilty. Julie drove us into Margaret River bought some food and we needed real food so went and bought Subway. Then to Julie's to spend the afternoon with her. Found out the two properties they maintain are the ones we saw from the track. One looked like an observatory but happened to be a multi million dollar holiday home.
Julie's partner Les asked me if I would consider helping him the next day with a few things on the property. Once I remembered we had no set time I spent the day with him helping out.

We were dropped of back at Prevelly Wed 31st May. It started off an easy walk but deteriorated during the day to a washed out beach and having to walk on a very narrow section of beach with a drop off into the surf. It did not improve after that either. After walking a few kms like this we came to a huge incline to the coast past limestone caves and back on a goat trail to Contos Camp Site. Contos Camp site is only 18 months old is a fee payable site opened to campers and caravans. This is one of the nicest camps we have seen.
Sharon wasn't well after this day sore knees and feet. I decided to stay an extra night to see how she improved. I was going to leave her there and carry on myself if she hadn't improved. On our day off we walked down and spent time at the beach a 3km return trip and Sharon said she would keep going the next day. So on Fri 2nd June we carried onto one of the easiest and nicest walks through a Karri forrest where I decided I much prefer the bush to coast walks. We made 15km this day but decided to stop before tackling a 7km beach walk. Found a nice spot in the sand dunes and stayed the night. A storm came across that evening with heavy rain and lashing winds. Not a great camp site I decided being right on the ocean. Had thoughts of us blowing away in the tent over night and loosing all our equipment. 10 minutes later it was all over and no more wind and rain. What a relief. Next morning all was good to tackle the beach and get to Hamlin Bay to restock our food. We weren't sure if we could buy food here or not. If there was nothing available our walk would be over. There was not much availabe but a loaf of bread cheese, butter, cupa soup, some drinks & chocolate we are good to go. The only water available was bore water tasted a bit brackish and salty but after using the steri pen we were good to go. We felt ok so decided to keep going to Deepdine Camp site another 8km away. We made it at about 2.30pm set up the tent and decided to go for a swim in the ocean to wash ourselves and our clothes at the same time. So the next morning Sunday woke up to a very cold damp morning. Our clothes are very cold and wet still from our swim and had to be worn. Not a great experience that one. So packed up camp carried extra water and a very wet tent to tackle another 7km of beach and rocky coast. We got within 3km of the Leeuwin Lighthouse and decided to camp at a lookout for the night after a rather hard 18km walk.

So our last morning was another night of heavy dew. By 8.00am still no sun showing over the hills so decided to pack up everything soaking wet and get going.

We made it to the lighthouse by 9.30am on the Monday of our son Corey's 26 birthday. So after taking 13 days to only cover 125km we had free entrance to the lighthouse and 10% discount at the cafe. Val & Tom pick us up and next on to the Bibbulmun track.