Dongara / Port Denison

We headed south along the coast to the twin towns of Dongara and Port Denison. Dongara is the older part of town, north of the Irwin River mouth, while (Port - usually not included) Denison is the fishing wharf and lobster processing south of the river.

What a pretty place! We called in for maybe one or two nights, ended up staying for eight!

We stayed in a caravan park on the water at Denison. We had water views, but thankfully were a little tucked away behind some beach-front villas which sheltered us from that constant sea breeze we have experienced continually for about six or eight weeks now.

We walked into Dongara along the beach front and boardwalk.Hold on to your hat!

Lobster potting, rather than fishing, dominates the port. All the boats are built to the same design, with a large open duck for pulling up cray pots.

Not a fishing net to be seen.

Communal drinks and nibbles of a Thursday afternoon.
With music. Lovely.
And pancake breakfast on Sunday. Very nice.
We'll catch up with a couple we met here when we're in Perth in a few weeks.

Denison from the hilltop lookout at the southern end of the bay.

We enjoyed having grass under our feet.

That blue thing is a 140L water bladder we used to top up the water tanks last week at Ellendale Pool. We can pop it in the car and drive somewhere, fill it with water and fill the van tanks from that, rather than packing up the van to do so.

It mightn't get used again for a month or more so it's good to put it away dry.

Nice as it is, it's time to move on.

Fires where we're headed, fingers crossed where we want to stay is OK.