Enid watching surfers at Prevelly Beach
We spent the morning at Prevelly Beach. We were some of the first “casual” users there, though there were a lot of hard-core surfers out past the reef at the point. We went to a swimming/surfing beach near where the Margaret River enters (though it actually isn’t entering now as the river ends before it reaches the ocean forming a calm lagoon.) There were some small children with their families in the lagoon, and a company also rents canoes and kayaks so there were a number of them stacked on the shore of the river.
We didn’t go to the lagoon, but instead swam in the ocean. There was about a metre swell, but the shore of the beach here rises quite rapidly, so that we didn’t find the surf very good for body boarding. After we tried for a while we walked about a kilometre north on the very soft sand of the beach, until we reached a headland that we couldn’t get around. When we got back there were quite a few people surfing and also a couple of body boards, but no-one really seemed to be very successful at riding the waves. We went in several times over the next couple of hours, and also just swam and dived through the surf. It was very nice and warm in the water, so it was a lot of fun. One large wave broke over my head and knocked my swim goggles off, but fortunately I never lost my contacts.
Lunch was accompanied with the sounds of Donavon from the sixties coming from a Wicked Camper van nearby (it looked like a Wicked convention as there were at least half a dozen other Wicked vans in the parking lot). Enid and I felt quite at home with the music; the surfers in the vans however were considerably younger!
After lunch we drove north to Bunbury where we cleaned up the motorhome at a carwash, and got everything else cleaned up to go to Perth tomorrow.