It cools down nicely over night. So we do not miss the aircon. The camper has a small powerful ceiling fan to circulate the air and a roof fan to pull in fresh air from outside. There are few windows and all are blinded and can not open. So you need the fans. But the last two nights we didn’t need the fan at all. We had cold nights in the forest.

We left late and after a stop to empty the toilet, drove into Bunbury. A trip of only 76 km. When pulling up from a traffic light we heard a strange sound. A car passing us pointed at the right front tyre. We drove into a sidestreet and parked the car on the grass. We have a flat tyre. Following the instruction, we dropped the reserve tyre and lifted up the camper with a spindel jack. The camper was too heavy, the ground too soft and the spindel too dirty. It took both Jamaliah and me to turn the winch but jointly we managed. The tyre is too damaged for repair. The spare one was almost flat but close by is a petrol station with air.

The whole exercise took all Rudy’s energy, so in town we parked the car and after the tourist info went for a rest and lunch in a small upmarket boutique cafe.

On the beachfront parking lot they have 4 spots reserved for campers. Great we will have a sunset view from the camper (if the cars in front of me move away…).

The cold shower at the pubic toilet was refreshing this morning. Jamaliah took some more mural pictures and we drove across to the bay where you could come close to dolphins swimming in front of you. The dolphin encounter happend already twice that morning. Will they come again. We waited for an hour and just when we wanted to travel on one arrived. 5 volunteers in red t-shirts positioned the 6 tourists in a row in shallow water. The female dolphin swam up and down in front of us. She did not lift her head out of the water. After a while we went back to the camper and drove to the point of the spit where the river fed lagune flows into the bay ie a place rich with fish. There were many cormorants diving for fish and also dolfines circulating around chasing and catching the fish. Regularly you heared the whoush sound of the dolphine bowing out air before elegantly diving again. This location is home to some 300 dolfins. No need to take an expensive boat tour if you can just see them frome the dunes.

Further north we stopped and walked over a long dam (living window) which was laid in the lagoon apparently to break the waves. Kite surfers used this break to surf up and down at great speed helped by the constant strong wind just over the dam and assisted by the lack of waves. On the seaside of the lagoon is a large stretch of dunes. We are now camped there. Lovely campsite with the lagoon on one side and the sea on the other.

We took a last look at the coast before we headed inland. We stopped at Harvey to look at the dam and surrounding before arriving at the campsite in Serpentine around 4pm. We will stay our last 2 nights in the camper here before we deliver it back to Stuart on Sunday 22nd.

We didn’t do very much today. Most of the day was spent reading and enjoying the sunny day. And a bit of camper cleaning. Late in the afternoon we went for a walk to the serpentine falls, just 2km from the campsite. It was a relax walk. Along the way we saw alpacas in the farm, black red tail cockatoos, a male kangaroo with young ones, one kingfisher and many magpies. Since it hasn’t rain for a while the waterfall is quite small and at present you are not allowed to swim in due to some presence of bacteria.

It was only 94 km to Rudy’s cousin Carel in Duncraig, Perth. We will spend Christmas with them, so along the way we did some shopping for the Christmas meal and presents for the grandchildren. In the afternoon Jamaliah cleaned the camper. The next day, Sunday,  we filled up the petrol, washed the camper and brought it back to Stuart, the owner of the camper. He lended us again his small Honda for the next few days before we fly to Brunei on 7/1.