Francois Peron National Park

Since we had caught up to the McCloskeys again at Monkey Mia, we thought it would be a good opportunity to check out Francois Peron National Park together. The drive to the homestead is a 2WD road but the rest of the national park is 4WD only with a lot of deep sand. We always feel safer tackling that kind of thing with another family. The homestead was built back in the days of sheep farming. The land was bought by the government in the early 90's and turned into a National Park. The kids were very excited to try out their natural hot spa using hot artesian bore water. It is about 40 degrees so a bit hot when it is over 30 degrees outside!



We then drove for about an hour to get to the northern area of the park and have a look at Bottle Bay. It is spectacular as the cliffs are red and the sand is either white, red, orange or even black in some areas.









Dion found some rock oysters and the boys tried them and decided they like them now. They are developing expensive sea food tastes on this trip. Tom requested red emporer fish for his dinner the other night at $65 per kilo! And Jack wants crab and crayfish to try as well. Even though it is all caught around here it doesn't make it any cheaper. Maybe just fresher.

We then got back into the car and had a look at Cape Peron and Skipjack Point. Beautiful scenery again and we saw enormous stingrays, lots of fish and lots of cormorants diving for fish from the look out.













We then went back down the sandy road to Herald Bight.



Beautiful clear water and a bit more sheltered from the wind but unfortunately no fish. The kids made another city for the toy cars but with no fish biting we decieded to head back to Monkey Mia. Really worth the long sandy drive to get in here. You can camp here and it would be a lovely spot to spend a few nights in a camper trailer or tent.