The site turns out to be VERY basic, but it was clean, safe and we had a nice spot tucked away in the corner with nice people next to us, so there were some good points. The site is an old style camp site, with two ladies loos, two showers, two washing machines, one mens loo, one mens thingy.....(urinal?) and one mens shower, and all as I said very basic.
The camp kitchen consists of two hot plates, and one sink and two wooden benches all of which are under a wooden cover. The one thing really missing is a camp fridge... Off I trot to the shop that runs the site... after some discussion the lady in the shop agrees we can keep a bag of chilled stuff in the bottom of her shop chiller.. so problem solved..... nice lady.
Anyway tent up , stuff all sorted and unpacked...and John decides we are gonna go down to walk the beach, and as the tide is out we (he decides) 'we' will go rock pool climbing!!! BIG mistake, Two hours later we have been half eaten by sand flies. I am ripping my legs to shreds and I have bites galore!! Wont be going down the beach again here. And Yes thats the bit they forgot to tell us about Point Samson..... it is always running alive with Mozzies and sand flies.
Long story short, but after trying every spray, cream, wash, scratch to calm the itches... one of the ladies staying on the site takes pity on me, calls me over and gives me a piece of Aloe Vera from her plant... Flippin bliss, I have total relief from scratching for about two hours. And even better we find some large Aloe vera plants all round the site, so John goes plant cutting !!!
Then we discover that the drain behind our tent is backing up....it looks like kitchen water, but never the less its a problem. 3 times I tell the lady in the shop and 3 times she says 'oh'. Anyway John knocks on the neighbours van and asks if he can move his outlet pipe into the drain the other side, which he agrees to, no problem. Hopefully this will see us through ok till the morning , which it does. The last thing we need is for the tent to get soaked and for us to come floating out !!!!! The tent is already showing real signs of wear and tear, so we are trying to make it last the next 5 months.....
The next morning John catches up with the maintinence guy, he is really nice and apologetic, no one had told him there was a problem, but he did not know what to do about the drain, so John goes into plumber mode and between the two of them and a shower mop head the drain gets sorted !
Theres a great tavern owned by the site, the food there is great. John has Prawn and corn chowder with turkish bread and I have a veggie curry.. all good, till you look at the bill...... but never mind, the credit card is out (twice) and we are flippin treating ourselves!! Added to this we sit out on the balcony of the restaurant and overlook the sea as we eat.
John does his fishing thing and catches some of the biggest fishes he has ever caught, bless him, and this time he has his camera, so the piccies are here for all to see.
We spend a very peaceful sunday planning the next 2-4 weeks of our trip, we have made some changes to our route and decide that we will fly to Ulurhu, once we get to Queensland as the journey now is going to be too hard and too hot and we need to make the shortest distance across Australia., be warned you underestimate the size of this country at your peril!
The stay here turns out to be quite nice and the three nights booked soon pass. We are invited into to one of the vans pitched near us and spend our last evening on site chatting and drinking tea with a couple from Victoria called David and Marnee, really lovely. They give us their address and offer to put us up if we ever need to park up or a place to stay.
Point Samson is in a big mining area, its also near Roebourne which has the state prison and Wickham which has the local supermarket, post office, pharmacy and coffee shop.. we're staying right in the middle of all of this...but none is within walking distance and all require a bike ride., but as John has no problem driving, getting about is no problem.
One of the couples on site give us a number for a really good site about 300km further up at Point Cooke, so again our route slightly changes as we decide to head there in the morning..
Anyway hers the piccies for Point Samson...
The road into Point Samson
The buddha garden in the site.
The garden steps to the shop and our bit of a chiller !
The moon, it lit up the water and almost made steps. This scene is commonly known as the 'stairway to heaven' and only happens on 3 nights at certain times of the year.
John outside the mozzie net.... MAD!
Just one of my legs, after Aloe Vera came on the scene!!! I will say no more but they look and fell pretty manky....
Some of the fish that John caught..
This is apparently the biggest one he has caught so far.
The view from outside out tent.
John bloody rock pooling! ( I am on my way out as I am now being eaten alive!)
Underwater life.
John holding the clam in the picture above..
A view across 'sandfly' bay! The tide really goes out here as you can see.
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