To the Tip

2 July - We spent the day at Punsand Bay washing and playing on the beach generally having a rest.

3 July - Early the next day we headed up a rough, bumpy road to the tip of Australia!  We got there in time to have the place almost to ourselves.

There was a rocky path up over a hill and down to the sea. A sign right on the edge of the surging water says “ You are now standing on the northern most point of the Australian Continent”. We took lots of photos to prove that we were there. 

 

Grumps, Dad, Ninny, Mum, Nanna, Pa,

Will, Hamish and Bella

at the Tip of Australia

We saw a German lady with her bike at the tip of Australia.  She had ridden it all the way from Germany (except she caught a boat from Hong Kong to Australia).  She must have eaten an awful lot of dust to get up there.

 

Grumps and the German lady who rode her bike to the tip.

Hamish saw a turtle in the water.  We had put extra rocks on all the huge cairns along the path to the tip. This inspired each of us to make our own cairn of rocks. Dad names his “Duncairn”.

 

Hamish spotting a turtle

 

 

 

 

"Duncairn"

 



Near the tip is an abandoned resort.  We went exploring through it and found a massive pool which still had water in it but most of it was falling down and being taken over by plants.  It would have been really  nice once upon a time.

From there we went to a place called Somerset.  It was once going to be the “Singapore of Australia” but someone didn’t do their homework.  You can only fit 4 ships into the harbour and the place was not on the general shipping route so the place was a flop.

We had lunch on a pretty beach though and found a few coconuts.  The first one had sour, rotten milk inside but the next one was dry inside but the flesh was really yummy.