This was our day to explore the peninsula, we headed off around 9:00 and stopped at Lombadina, there was supposed to be a bakery there. It turned out that there was a baker who made a few loaves three days a week, we were able to get the last loaf available. The mission church here is much more rustic that the one at Beagle Bay, the roof is shingles, all the roof timbers and most of the supporting timbers were natural unmilled timber logs and branches.

Rustic church at Lombadina

From Lombadina we went on to Kooljaman which is the most northwest point of the cape. This place was quite impressive, there was a very nice restaurant overlooking well kept gardens and a magnificent view of the Indian Ocean. It was $10 to have a look around (day visit) so we walked down to the western beach and with the tide out we (I) decided to walk around the Cape to the swimming beaches on the northern side.

Cape Leveque Island

Cape Leveque Cliffs

The red cliffs were quite impressive, but after a 90 mins walk in the middle of the day, clambering over quite a few rocky areas we arrived at the swimming beaches quite exhausted. There was no one there, we didn’t have our bathers with us so I dropped my shorts and went in the water in my undies. Despite the heat I couldn’t persuade Jacky to do the same. We finally got back to the main office, sat down in the outdoor restaurant and ordered 2 ice coffees, it was so nice seating there under the fans that we both decided to hang the expense and order lunch as well.

After a very nice steak sandwich we hit the road again and headed up to the Cygnet Bay pearl farm. We did a tour and learnt a lot more about culturing pearls and pearls themselves than we knew before. The staff there were very friendly, they have a beautiful garden setting with a nice café where we had a very nice mango smoothie for afternoon tea.

Café at Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm

From Cygnet Bay we headed off to One Arm Point, the most easterly part of the Cape. There was trochus shell hatchery here that was supposed to be worth a visit but we were well behind in our schedule and it was closed. It was dark by the time we arrived back at camp.