Phoenix & Eric's Australian Adventure

A late start to the day for us 8:00am, had breakfast off down to the beach so Elisa can go for a snorkel, i take my chair to sit on the beach and make sure she doesn’t drown. Even though she is only 5M off the beach in 2M of water she still needs supervising.

Whilst in the water the two tour boats set off in the direction of where she is swimming a very good skipper slowed down and waited for her to get out of the way before he proceeded.

After getting out of the water Elisa tells me it is bloody cold but she must have seen over two hundred different spices of fish but did not hear the boats. Back to the caravan so she can shower and change before we had a walk around the few shops and into Bills bar for lunch.

With not being able to book in at Coral Bay until 1 PM we packed up the van ready for departure and then went for a walk down to the port to kill time before leaving for a 2 1/2 hour drive to Coral Bay. The roads are very quite going North but quiet busy with people heading back South.

Arriving in Coral Bay we were able to get onto our site straight away. After setting up we went for a walk along the front. At the far end the NEW RAC Accommodation is starting to shape up with all new motel style accommodation. The caravan park is completely full along with the overflow camping. Just popped into Bill’s to check on the beer and wine, would hate anyone getting a bad pint !!

There is no TV reception so had to resort to using the internet to get something to watch.

Woke up to a cloudy start to the day but having seen the news that Spain had beaten Argentina the day got better and the clouds began to disappear.

After breakfast we drove to the Canarvon Space Museum (for those that don’t know this site helped during the tracking of the Apollo space Missions in 1969 – 1975). Almost managed to leave Elisa on Mars.

Back into Canarvon and to the post office to post the keys back to the Port Denison caravan park as we forgot to hand them in when we left.

Today is dry and we get packed up and on the road by 8:45am. We are going to be driving for around six hours to drive the 500 plus kM. The roads are reasonably quiet and able to keep a steady speed of 100kM . We arrive in Canarvon around 3pm and get setup and have a walk down to the local watering hole.

When we booked in Lisa was told that the camp fire would be lit around 5pm and the local fish and chip van would be there, looks like fish and chips for tea. The following picture shows us sat around the camp fire while we wait for our fish and chips.

We have woken up to a dry sunny day and are going to take a walk down to the front and around the port. The caravan park is emptying very quickly this morning as people with kids are heading back down to Perth as it is the end of the school holidays (2 weeks) for most kids.

We have found a coffee van so having a coffee before we head back to the caravan park.

There is quiet a lot of damage to the foreshore in places from the high wind and seas we had at the end of June.

We have decided to go out for tea to the one and only pub in Port Denison and Lisa has had the Cray Morney.

We have finally finished packing and are on the road by 8:30am. Weather is dry but quiet a lot of mist as we depart Bunbury. Our first nights stop is to be at Dongara approx 540kM north. We get through Perth without any major holdups and are now on the Brand Highway. Weather is starting to deteriorate and the rain is starting to fall and we have about a 120kM to go before we reach our caravan park.

Arrived at the caravan park and it has stopped raining, rushing around to get set up before it starts to rain again. I have left the caravan attached to the car and just connected power and water, starting to rain again this is 4pm and it bucketed down for the next 6 plus hours.

16th July 2026

I’m BACK, it’s me Phoenix with my partner “ERNIE” now 2 years old.

Mum & Dad have sold Eric the motorhome and have bought a new 4×4 and a 16ft (4.8768M) Snowy River Caravan and called him Ernie.

We are on our way round to Rhina and Neil’s for tea before we leave for Exmouth tomorrow morning. We have finished tea and mum and dad are leaving ??? Apparently i am not going this year but i am going to be looked after by Auntie Rhina and Uncle Niel until the 1st of August then Aunty Mary is taking over looking after me until mum and dad return.