Day 94-100 Jurien Bay

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  Jurien Bay, Australia
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Day 94-100 Jurien Bay                                                                    Wed March 4th - Tues March 10th 2009
Our late arrival into Jurien Bay Tourist Park on Wednesday evening saw us nearly miss the night's entertainment of "Buzzer the Bush Balladeer" - a Country & Western star (or so he claimed) from the 20's, I reckoned!
We were pleasantly surprised to find Riley, Darcy, Simone & Luke (from Luckybay) in the audience and realised our site was right beside them - we were to be our neighbours again! Max was stoked, he and the boys made lots of noise re-acquainting themselves and generally disrupted Buzzer's performance, but despite all this he soldiered on like the true professional he is.
Maegan got up and sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" at the end of Buzzers set. She was so impressed with him(and we with her act of bravado) that when he put his hat out to collect gold coin donations and urged his guests to peruse his merchandise (which included his CD's of past memorable performances) Maegan bought a stubbie holder to remember the occasion

Maegan with Buzzer

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The water here is clear, clean and pristine. We were lucky to have hot weather whilst here and that meant little wind so the swimming area was mostly flat waters and hence the clear waters. We felt we had arrived in paradise, when you find these gems it is difficult to move on for fear you will not find somewhere as good.
One morning we drove to Cervantes to the Nambung National Park to see the pinnacles, we were all amazed to find desert conditions seeming appear out of no-where. Rather than walk the 1.2km loop on this very hot day we drove, stopping many times enthralled with the display of these unusual limestone pillars. Some were 5m tall and others were 2m wide at the base, Maegan and Max thought they were awesome, we all thought they were awesome. I took heaps of photos trying to capture them in all their glory, in different lights and with the blue sea in the background. The interpretive centre with a themed "signs of life" display of animals found in this environment was fantastic also, we all learned heaps here.
We spent heaps of time with Luke, Simone, Riley and Darcy at the beach swimming, snorkelling and jumping off the jetty and at the local pub on Friday night. The kids played on the jumping pillow in between Riley and Darcy's distance education lessons.
Greg woke on Saturday morning with a major hang-over, he and Luke stayed long after I had taken the remaining kids home

Jurien Bay - Maegs being thrown by Greg

. Darcy came down with a temperature, feeling lethargic and generally unwell, so Simone took him home first. He ended up not well for 24hrs, just the usual tummy bug stuff. Greg was so crook next morning he couldn't go to his usual Super Saturday racing at the pub tab. Naturally I had little sympathy for his self inflicted condition, Luke bounced back quickly and Greg took all day to come good.
Fishing off the jetty was a favourite pass-time of Maegan's once she met Jasmine and her family later in the week. She caught a flathead there at dusk and Greg was also caught several whiting. None were big enough to eat, not that he would have eaten them anyway. They both enjoyed watching the sunsets from on those nights
Sandy Cape approximately 9km north of Jurien and a potential cheap campsite provided another half day's activity. We drove there to determine if we would stay on the way out of Jurien, however the seaweed was a little on the nose and given the $15p.n site fees we were not bowled over enough by this site to cut short our time in Jurien Bay. We did follow a dolphin that was feeding in the reef, really close to the beach. It was playing and diving like a whale, flapping its tail on the water as it surfaced. I wondered if it did this because it was feeding, thrashing about trying to eat the fish it chased... Anyway I dragged the family about 2km along the bay mesmerised by this animal in its natural environment and attempting to capture it on camera.
Reluctantly we left Jurien on Tuesday morning but not before one last swim and dive off the jetty in the magnificent calm, clear waters before breakfast that day, our 100th day on the trip. What a way to start the celebrations...

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Jumping off the jetty	tall pinnacles	wide pinnacles	maegs on beach at Jurien
friends o n the jumping pillow	dolphin at Sandy Cape	Maegs with Jasmine

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