Tuesday 21 January 2014 - Jurien Bay, WA

Tuesday 21 January 2014 - Jurien Bay, WA

It’s warmed up a lot over these past few days, with temps in the top 30s (today the mercury hit 40 degrees around 1pm) and an easterly blowing most mornings. Fortunately it swings around to a southerly sometime after 11am (today was later, that’s why it got hotter) and that cools things down nicely in the afternoon. Definitely a different climate to Mackay and even Brisbane, where in summer it often starts out warm and gradually climbs to a stinking hot peak around 3pm-ish and of course, there’s no humidity here. 

Yesterday we drove the 14km north to Sandy Cape, where we went for a picnic the other week whilst staying at Leeman. We drove the car right onto the beach, set up the sun tent and splashed around in some of the calmest waters the girls have come across (they’re not so keen on waves). Yasmin and I climbed the dunes to a magnificent lookout and Glen and Sienna raced around the shallows, kicking up the water. On our way back down, Yasmin and I found a little cave which had a seaweed bed, so we took Sienna there and told her all about the mermaids sleeping there, pointing out where they put their babies to bed and the oysters they ate off the rocks. Magic.