Day 63: Pender Bay (Day 3)

Today the other three families packed up and headed off to their next camps while we were staying for another night. The three families that were next to each other were all up for sunrise together. For the first time we saw lots of humpback whales in the distance (until now it has only been one or two a day). Several of them were breaching and tail slapping. They were still pretty far from the shore but with binoculars we could see them playing. Closer to shore Olivia was the first to spot the two dolphins swimming along the shore below camp. What a big marine wildlife morning to see our new friends off.

After all the excitement, the kids all squished in as much play as they could before everyone left camp around 10:00am. It was then very quiet. I went for a walk down the beach that was now littered with jelly fish that had washed up the previous night. Later in the afternoon John and the kids went for a snorkel. While snorkelling, Theo got closer to a jelly fish then he was comfortable with so he decided to get out of the water. While making his way to shore he stepped on a rock covered in sharp shells, cutting his heel, and leaving a bit of shell in his foot. We tried to get it out but had no luck. As we were travelling back to Broome the following day we decided to just wrapped it up and take a trip to the doctors back in town.

Since it was our last night at Pender Bay we had a campfire to use up our remaining firewood that we had been lugging around since Litchfield National Park.