19th September 2015 - Lazy day at Kooljaman

Kooljaman Resort at Cape LeVeque -  where the red of the Outback meets the blue of the Indian Ocean

The Track from West Beach to East Beach 

The main resort building overlooks West Beach but there is a beach cafe on East Beach and lots of chalet type accommodation.  The track is only a short walking distance passed the Lighthouse below

The Lighthouse

The Kooljaman campsite.  Our camper trailer is dead centre of the photo

This is a lovely place to camp.  We hope to return here some day and spend more time here.

Early morning walk on East Beach - stunning!

Today we enjoyed a lazy day - an early morning walk - chatting to friends and comparing travel notes at the campsite- time on the beach to swim in the warm calm waters with new friends and a colourful sunset to finish the perfect day!

Just as the sun was setting one of the campers whom we had been chatting to earlier came over with some freshly baked banana bread.  She had told us earlier that when at home she baked cakes for a local cafe and we were surprised to hear that she baked cakes while travelling in her Webber bbq.  The banana bread was a sample of this method of cooking and it was absolutely delicious!

Another gorgeous sunset to end a perfect day in paradise!

Or so we thought....... Tezza retired to bed in the camper but I stayed up to read for a bit by the light of a torch so as not to disturb fellow campers.  Suddenly I realised that there were two people standing beside me - a man and his young son - "Do you know anything about snakes?" enquired the father from Melbourne - "Not a lot" I replied ....  "Well," he replied "there is a big one heading this way".  I immediately alerted Tezza who refused to leave his bed and just advised me to go and ask some "local" guys camped nearby.  The "local" guys turned out to be from the Northern Territory - hundreds of kilometers away but that was close enough.  They readily volunteered to assist and soon identified the snake as a olive python.  By this time the snake (more than 2 metres long) was trying to climb into our next-door neighbour's ute which had the tailgate down. One of the Territory guys grabbed it by the tail but it was far to strong and got away moving to the front of the ute and climbing into the engine where is coiled its long body round parts of the engine.  Someone commented that it must like the warmth there and another bright larrikin suggested that they turn on the air-conditioning!

Anyway the snake was there to stay for the night so we left it.  (I decided there was no way I was going to get up in the dark that night to visit the dunny - a bucket would have to do!!)  The snake was gone in the morning!