north to cervantes

we stay slowly. lace home about 11. we're driving to cervantes to stay a couple of days. two hours driving so no hurry.

We stop at lancelin for lunch. nothing great but it's food, good enough :-)

we walk round a bit, checking out the artwork, occasional almost-sculptures up on walls.

we walk up the boardwalk. views over the sea, it it a large shallow bay. some kite surfers... there's enough wind to make it easy.

the view is beautiful. some fancy houses round the bay, on the dowside they are facing into a strong wind.

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As we drive what we notice most is the horizons. it's so nice to have broad, distant horizons. miles of scrub and sand dunes, not blocked in by buildings or trees. so nice and open, beautiful.

the gps tells us to continue for 149km. that is a sensible size for a state. and we are not even in a remote area. distant views across low scrub with occasional areas of low trees, often near the road, probably benefitting from road run off.

it's a bit harsh, would not want to walk through it but it's beautiful.

mid afternoon, we get to cervantes.

now our big decision is, where do we eat.

we walk round town, suburbia really, checking the sculptures. deb has a map, we find half a dozen, eg zebras crossing... to cut out metal zebras

we're looking for a meal of crayfish, they are caught here off the coast. thing is, neither of us really like crayfish.

we end up back at the motel, Pinnacles Motel, at its ploughman restaurant, we have rather nice barramundi. called crispy skin barra but the crisping failed.

dessert is no choice, coles mud cake with ice cream. very nice but an enormous serve, we share but still leave half. $102 all up with drinks. expensive but a good meal.

now we are relaxing in our room, a standard motel self contained room.

alarm set for 5am, tomorrow we have a trail run.

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