Day 37 – 19th February 2018 – Bremer Bay

Col has finished editing another video, his skills are improving exponentially! Hope you enjoy it, this one was done on the Nullarbor Plain when we went driving through the National Park. His new nickname might be Col Attenborough

We went for a drive around today to check out Bremer Bay and the surrounds to see what is around. The photo below is of the beach closest to the Caravan Park where we are staying and is near the mouth of Bremer River. Bremer River connects to the Ocean only a few times a year apparently. The other times you can walk across the River mouth as it is completely dry.

We then went for a drive to check out the boat ramp which looked quite good.

People were fishing for Tommies (Herring) off the rocks nearby.

There were some good fish cleaning tables at the Boat Ramp, as well as at the Bremer River near the Caravan Park.

We went to a site overlooking Native Dog Beach.

We then tried a couple of tracks to get to some more remote fishing beaches. The first one was to Reef Beach which got very soft and narrow very quickly. We decided it wasn’t smart to keep going. The second one we took was to Fosters Beach and was about 15km long and we ended up stopping 2km short of the goal. It took us about 40 minutes one way and had some challenging parts. Again it was very narrow and some sandy and rocky sections. Not many points along the way that you can turn around and go back. I got a little nervous when we lost mobile coverage. But Col handled the driving well. When we got 2km from the beach it got quite soft and steep and the car was threatening to bog. Col didn’t want to let down his tyres, so we decided we needed to head back. Unfortunately we couldn’t turn around for sometime, so Col had to drive it backwards, using the reversing camera in the rear-vision mirror of the FJ. It felt like playing a video game! Thankfully we made it to a spot we could turn around and do the rest of the track going forwards!!