We left 80m Mile Beach Park at around 8:30am just as the wind was coming up again. It isn't pleasant towing a large van in the wind and fuel consumption sky-rockets unless you are lucky enough to strike a tail-wind. We followed a cattle truck and another van on the corrugated dirt road back out to the highway, so we had to keep our distance or we would have been smothered in red dirt. We breathed a sigh of relief at arriving back at the highway again and settled into the 250km drive to our next stop, Barn Hill Station. Barn Hill Station is located at the end of another shocker of 13kms of dirt road and with 3 gates thrown in for good measure. We finally arrived at the park office (if you could call it an office) and found 3 caravans already in front of us wanting a site. These isolated parks are so popular that you run the risk of them being booked out, so this wasn't looking too good for us. But, better than we thought ... all that was available was unpowered sites for $20 per night, but we would have water, phone and internet so we checked in for two nights. The sites were on a cliff top overlooking the ocean and the ground was red dirt and Bindiis, but the scenery along the beach was spectacular.
On Thursday we had a lazy day ... in the afternoon Rick went swimming and I walked the beach, taking photos of the rock formations in the cliffs. Several people were fishing on the beach but not catching anything.
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| Incredible rock formations on the beach |
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| The sunset from our cliff top camp site |
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