The wind blew quite fiercely throughout the night but we awoke to a beautiful, calm day. Terry’s plan was to continue up the coast on the four wheel drive track and cross Yardie Creek to get to the campsite but we couldn’t get reliable information about whether the creek was crossable or not so we went back to the highway and headed for Exmouth and down to Yardie Creek from there. We arrived in Exmouth around lunchtime and were able to get the tent poles we needed. After having lunch in Federation Park, across the road from the shopping centre, we hit the road again to get to our pre-booked campsite at Yardie Creek. On entering the Range National Park we enquired about the availability of campsites after tonight and were told that the park was completely full. The ranger said we could line up at the ranger station in the morning when they allocated sites on a first come first served basis. The ranger station opened at 8.30am but we were told that people started lining up from 6am. The ranger radioed ahead to Yardie Creek to let the camp hosts know we were on our way. Pat and Barb were the camp hosts and on arriving we asked about the possibility of staying longer. Pat said they were fully booked  but he could try to get us into another campsite at 7.30am the next morning.

Yardie Creek

We went for a walk to the creek and Terry found that it would have been fine to cross – better safe than sorry.

The creek would have been about a metre deep at high tide and ankle deep at low tide and with high tide at 2pm we would have had to wait to around 5pm to cross

The good thing about Yardie Creek was very few flies so no need for the walls around the canopy. Terry took some photos of the sunset but it wasn’t that spectacular as there were too many clouds. We had a visit from a cheeky kangaroo later  and he put his nose right on to the table whilst we were still sitting there. We fixed the shower tent and had a wonderful shower before bed.