Day 41: Cossack Rest day 1

August 28, 2022

Today, I didn’t get on my bike at all. Cossack township is a little way inland along the river so I went for a walk down to Settler’s beach this morning. I passed the cemetery which has a sad European part with lots of kids and infants and a Japanese section that I’m sure is also sad.

It’s harder to understand these gravestones but I bet these Japanese people didn’t think they’d end up buried here

Settlers beach is huge but not good for swimming at low tide

The lighthouse is unfortunately on an island

The Cossack police quarters provide cereal and milk and raisin toast for breakfast. That solved my breakfast dilemma for today! There was a makers market on the verandah of the court house and a guy playing live music at the cafe so it was very lively. There were heaps of people come out for the day. I got a coffee which was pretty average but caffeinated. I also saw Jeff, the American hippy from Kununurra backpackers who gave me a painted rock for luck. He’s staying in karratha on his slow way back to Melbourne.

We went to Wickham, a Rio Tinto town in the middle of the peninsula which had very little going for it except a nice lookout and a well stocked Woolworths.

Last night it was just us and another couple in the five rooms of the police barracks but a family with two little boys and two grandparents arrived so it’s not as quiet tonight.

In the afternoon I walked up the small hill behind town.

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