DAYS 40 - 41 BARN HILL

8-9 April 2008

DAYS 40 - 41 Pilbara – Kimberley Trip

BARN HILL

Tuesday 8 April

We will always remember today, 8 April, as a very special day.  This evening we heard that our daughter gave birth to a healthy little boy.  Surprisingly we were in contact range and we heard within a half an hour of the birth.  Had we stayed at Eighty Mile Beach Caravan Park we would have missed out on the news.

We are just so happy for them!

As you can tell from the title we decided to move on to Barn Hill today.  Hot and humid and it did hit 41 today.  Not a pleasant day at all in respect to the temperature as humidity must be in high 90s.  At Sandfire Roadhouse termite mounds lined the entry/exit and a group of peacocks were strutting there stuff going backwards and forwards across the road with not a care in the world as cars took care to avoid them..

Car electrics still a problem.  The new charger gave up the ghost last night.  Problem still not solved and causing more and more headaches for dear hubby.  It is beginning to have its toll.  I just hope the problem will be solved in Broome.

I am thankful to a friend who travelled here last year and told us about Barn Hill as the rock formations on the beach are truly very unusual. We managed to go for a walk as the tide was going out.

The unusual colours of the rocks was also intriguing.

I intend to explore them further tomorrow.



Wednesday 9 April

After a hot and humid day we got up to face the day.  We managed to go for a walk on one side of the coastline before the tide came in.  There was a 9 metre high tide forecast for Broome today so it was similiar here. 

The colours on the rocks are so different – pinks against a dark crimson red earth. The beach is pristine.  A few shells splattered along the coast line.  We were absolutely soaked with perspiration by the time we got back.  So we had a shower and sat in the shade to read.  The showers are open to the sky and the water is supposedly cold but comes out warmish.  The showers were very refreshing.

Hubby again got into the electrics and found that the solar panels were producing the voltage but it was being lost between the battery and alternator.  The fridge was using more power than we were generating.  So he’s back checking the alternator.  It is really getting to him.

I went for another walk as the tide started to go out.  This time I went to the other side.  Again more fascinating formations.

The formations look rugged and strong whilst at the same time have a sense of fragility.  One has a sense of the ephemeral  - here today maybe gone tomorrow.

The sand was so pristine except for the many interestingly coloured rocks, a splattering of shells and jelly fish.

 Hubby came to meet me as I had been gone a while.  On the way back, as always if there are any stairs, he did his stretches in preparation for the ski season.  This time I had the camera handy to catch him at it.