Lesueur National Park is a botanic oasis, a haven to over 900 plant species. In spring, the park transforms into a wildflower wonderland apparently, pity I am too early to witness that! But I did like the feathery look of the smokebush.

Sandy Bay lookout was offering lovely views of an impending storm.

Green Head has the delightfully green Dynamite Bay and I wanted to get a drone shot of same….the wind level was increasing but I had a couple of spare batteries so I wasn’t concerned. However when I tried to get the drone back to me, I thought I had sight of it, but it wasn’t responding to my remote control . As I walked along the beach admittedly starting to get that rising sense of panic, I suddenly saw a guy with a remote control…..and we discovered that was his drone (mine was further out in the bay). I pressed the ‘return home’ button on my drone and it faithfully returned. Adrian, from Perth, and I laughed (what are the odds of 2 drones, both DJI Air 2’s in the same location??), exchanged drone stories and parted ways. Stayed at Green Head caravan park overnight – met a lovely Danish couple who had been travelling on the West coast for 4 months. Severe wind gusts and rain interrupted my beauty sleep all night.

Leeman, further north, has a unique blend of caves, fresh and salt water lakes. I hung around the lake area off Coolimba-Eneabba Rd hoping to bird watch, but very quiet this morning.

The Indian Ocean at Port Denison was warm and inviting this morning – lots of beach strollers and surfers about. A HUGE shoal of mullet was swimming close to the shore’s edge and locals were rushing off home to get fishing lines to catch dinner.