We made it. Arrived in Coral Bay about 4:30pm yesterday and there is only one way to describe it….. beautiful 🙂
It is warm, the beaches are pure white and the water crystal clear.
I told Fi to put the house on the market because we have found our new home…. instead she booked us in for 5 nights… oh well, will be a great 5 nights 🙂
Not too sure what there is to see and do around here, but over the next few days I can see sitting on the beach, building sand castles, swimming, snorkeling, a dive and maybe even a glass bottom boat. Will just have to wait and see.
I guess even paradise has it’s downfalls, as we were driving North today and passed the Tropic of Capricorn, there was a big red sign warning that it is cyclone season, and to be aware of conditions ahead. I joked with Fi that it would be just our luck that we would run into a cyclone!!! Last night, I got an email from Dad saying there was a cyclone building just off the Coco islands and I thought what are the chances???? I did have a laugh.
I checked the conditions on the Internet and it appears it has already been downgraded, and there are no warnings for this area, so we should be ok.
The other thing we experienced yesterday on our travels was heat. The road up here kept winding inland away from the coast, and I could watch as the temperature gauge rose a good 5 or 6 degrees. We stopped for fuel (no fleet card…Grr) and it was a very dry and hot 43 dregrees. While filling the car, we also experienced a dust storm that came out of nowhere. I had left the windows open on the car so the kids wouldn’t cook, and had to stop filling and run around to then front to turn the car back on and put the windows up. Damn electric windows. It passed reasonably quickly, but Zac thought it was awesome. Of course he wasn’t standing outside filling the car!!
The other amazing thing was just how dry the country side is. We kept passing these huge rivers that were nothing more than a dry and dusty river bed. They looked like they haven’t see water in a long time. Although, some of the flood markers around the road were a little disturbing. You can see how with everything being so dry, even a quick cyclone would cause some major flooding. Let’s just hope I don’t have to test the snorkel on the car, as unfortunately the caravan didn’t come with one!
Anyway, that’s enough dribble from me, I had better go back to convincing Fi we should live here…. wish me luck 😉
