A lone surfer ploughs through the waves. They weren’t big that evening, but I’m sure he enjoyed himself anyway.
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Crowdy Bay – Part 3
It was a beautiful evening on Dunbogan Beach. Being early September, we had it almost all to ourselves.
In the distance you can see North Brother mountain, which is right behind Laurieton. It’s pretty much all national park from our end of the beach to the other.
Crowdy Bay – Part 2
After setting up, we headed down to the beach to watch the sunset.
Crowdy Bay – Part 1
We’re back on the East Coast, on the second part of our honeymoon – camping at Crowdy Bay. Crowdy Bay is in between Taree and Laurieton on the the Mid North Coast. We camped at the Diamond Head campsite, the biggest camp site, which is barely 15 minutes south of Laurieton. The locals certainly gave us a welcome when we arrived late afternoon.
Bunker Bay – Part 3
Up on the hill we could appreciate the waves and the rugged coastline.
Well, it’s the end of our journery through Margaret River and south west WA. Next time we’ll be visiting somewhere a little closer to home.
Bunker Bay – Part 2
The seas once again looked treacherous that morning.
We didn’t realise how treacherous until that evening when we heard that a surfer had been taken by a white shark less than a kilometre from where we were standing that very morning! The water was very murky after a couple of days of rain, and the shark probably mistook the surfer for a seal or dolphin.
Bunker Bay – Part 1
Bunker Bay is on the northern shore of the Margaret River region. This side of the ‘paddock’ seemed more popular and developed than the Margaret River township – I suspect this was because many folks from Perth have their beach houses in the area.
Bunker Bay though is still in the national park. Development might have be limited, but boy was it popular. Cars were parked cheek to jowl at the cafe nearby even though it was before 11am. We were looking for the beach however, and the one we found was blessingly quiet.
Like much of the south west coastline, it was a limestone shore. You can again see the caves being exposed to the air by constant erosion.
Prevelly – Part 5
Above the surf beach is a special bench.
We leave Prevelly, but have one more place to visit in the Margaret River region.
Prevelly – Part 4
Soon the wind was up and the waves pounding the shore.
This is the stretch up beach the hold the surfing competitions on. It is usually held in autumn when the swells are over 3 metres high. It looked pretty grim when we were there already.
Prevelly – Part 3
It wasn’t fair weather for long though, because the clouds were soon rolling in.
Static and Silence 