As per my previous entry we thought we would be travelling from Monkey Mia to Coral bay which is about 200km south of Exmouth. We woke up bright and early ready to leave Monkey Mia, we left at about 9am hoping to arrive in Coral Bay before 5pm (you dont drive the West Coast after this time as Kangaroos have a death wish and just hop out in front of you!) It got to around 5:30pm and we were still driving. I was driving and Rach was on Kangaroo watch, I was so worried my eyes felt like they were sucked onto the window screen! we decided to pull into a over night stay park at Maniliya Roadhouse. There were other campervans and caravans in there so we decided we would sleep in the car for the night and set off again at first light as we were still 96kms from Coral Bay.

We both really needed the toilet so decided to brave the THE LONG DROP!!! A dear little old couple gave us their wind up torch and off we went. The "Dunni" was pitch black and Rach said "b***** that, im going to go here!!" (but this was right beside the road to which im sure it would have given the road train much delight to witness and certainly woke them up!! aswell as being a second full moon that evening!! After much pursuasion and me going first Rach decided to go for it. Well I wish I hadnt bothered, There she was doing what you do in these places and I was scanning the toilet for Creepie Crawleys only for find a suspisious looking Redback tpe spider right in fround of Rach. I said " Rach, I wont show you whats in front of you" to which she replyed with the most loudest, high pitched scream which echoed through the tin walls of the dunni and propably gave the other over night stayers a right laugh! When we cam back out a few of the guys were laughing alot! and " well done girls we wouldnt even go in there, especially when theres a roadhouse with a nice toilet over the road"

So off we trundled over the road to the Roadhouse to get something to eat. On the way back out of the Roadhouse and back to the car we got harrased by a local, very drunk aboriginie who was obviously trying to freek us out by following us and asking us to go back to his for a BBQ! Yeah right! Rach may be blond and me a little dim sometimes but were not that bloody thick! so we got in the car (with him shouting "wind down your window! I want to tell you something!") with that Rach jumed in the car and I shouted "not bloddy likly!" and we sped off! We look back at it now and its funny but at the time we were slightly concerned for our safety.

We went back over the road to where all the other overnighters were and felt better knowing they were all still awake and chatting amoungst themselves. So we wnet about preparing our bed (car) for the night. We put blankets and towels up at the window, poured ourselves a mug of neat vodka, and settle down for the night. Suprisingly we both had quite a good nights sleep.

We woke up at 8am and set off for Exmouth, deciding that we would go Coral Bay on the way back down the peninsula.

xx