Kalbarri and the Canoe and Cray Festival

We decided to leave Geraldton, even though we only had half our required batteries, as our destination was only 150km away at Kalbarri, and Dunc could easily return when the next batch of batteries was in. And we knew that the caravan park in Kalbarri had a pool and that there was a festival on. So it was another moving day. Geraldton’s Sunset Beach Caravan Park may have a very dodgy playground, but it does have the best-located dump point for a motorhome that we have ever experienced. It has a full-on turning circle built into the layout and a pull-in bay for dumping. Hmmm. It seems we are obsessed with toilet matters, but trust me – it’s a vital thing to have operational! Never again will I take a sewer-connected toilet for granted.

We made it to Kalbarri in time for the last part of the festival. The children got to participate in a beach-based tug-of-war and we cruised the market stalls. There was an auction and best-of-all a night time screening of ‘The Lego Movie’! We had been trying to watch it for some time (“Eeeeeveryone has seen it mum, except us!!”) and this way we got do so in an outdoor cinema with wood fired pizzas – BONUS!

Aside from the festival, we got to explore the Kalbarri National Park. We drove between short hikes and Whingey and Whiney made their customary appearance. We forgot the flynets, which is a big issue for Miss Whingey. The views were incredible and well worth putting up with the complaints. Even the children agreed that it was worth the walk. ‘Nature’s Window’ was the most impressive bit, but the general views of the gorges were just ‘gorgeous’!!

  

I finished our stay at Kalbarri with a quick trip to hospital. I was showing a family around Bertha after dinner and tripped over the toolbox that Dunc was using. The cut wasn’t that bad, and I was happy with the way we treated it, but I woke up at 3.30am to the realization that I had forgotten to go to the doctors before we left and my tetanus was probably out of date. I rang our doctors in the morning, and I was DEF due for a shot. Because it was a metal toolbox, and the injury was on the foot, I was advised to go ASAP, so it was off to the Emergency Dept for me. I didn’t realize that going for the tetanus shot would mean being admitted and having my temp, blood pressure and pulse O2 measured too! The lovely nurse also cleaned and dressed my ‘wound’ properly and was kind enough not to laugh at me when he uncovered it.