Hamelin Pool

After staying in 2 caravan parks in a row, and with new inverter and batteries on board, we were keen to do some free camping. Hamelin Pool seemed ideal, until we worked out that it was a grand total of $3 more to go next door for a swimming pool and power. It wasn’t til after I had paid that I realized we paid $5 extra per kid, which meant it was $13 more. Sigh… I don’t get the way these caravan parks gouge for kids. We can’t possibly use $10 more electricity than if they were not with us. Do they really use that much more water?? We weren’t even plugged into water there!

Anyway, staying at Hamelin Pool Caravan Park meant we were right at the Telegraph Station, and the shell quarry and stromatalites were right there too. We had seen stromatalites at Kings Park in Perth, and I had read in another blog about how you need to ‘sell’ them a bit to kids. They may be living rocks which are older than the dinosaurs and be our first transition to life on earth, but really, they just look like blobby old rocks on the seashore. Fortunately the station had some in a tank and we were able to get a great close up underwater view of them. We could even see the oxygen they ‘breathe out’ being released, and I was so glad we did the Telegraph Station tour. It was worth it for the stromatalites!