We got up early to drive 4 km further along the track and do a couple of walks at Palm Valley. The tour bus driver told us that Dory wouldn’t have enough ground clearance to drive there as their company Delica got stuck up there. “Yeah yeah”, we thought, Dory will be fine.

Anyway the track had a mixture of terrains. It was very rocky in parks and definitely needed 4wd and clearance (no Christine, your Datsun 120y would not make it!) It was my first time driving on sand and that was a bit of fun until we scraped Dory’s belly. We drove on a little further, then parked in what appeared to be a RAV4 car park.

This is where Dory waited for us.

We got out and walked up the track to check out the terrain. Looks like the tour bus driver was right. We would have got stuck on the next bit of sand (where the middle bit between the wheel tracks was way too high). We walked the rest of the way (it was only 15 minutes).

At the end was an oasis of dense clusters of towering red cabbage palms (they weren’t really red, but that’s what they call them).

We did a one-hour walk. We saw what we believe to be a snake track on the sand. It looked like a tyre tread pattern of about snake width. We had a little look but didn’t see it. It’s on Mikes “wildlife to see” list”.