Geraldton WA May 30 2918

Fairly short run of 340km today, leaving Mount Magnet and heading west, passed through Mullewa where we stopped for a cuppa, and on into Geraldton. We are camped-up in the Belair van park, which is just south of the town centre and right across the road from a beach, which I think is Point Moore beach. At least that's what the lighthouse is called so I'll go with that. All the beaches here are open to vehicles and this one started to fill up as families came out to play and fishos to fish. They are having a bit of an uphill battle trying to stop the ocean taking back the sand dunes, they may be fenced off to keep us out and let the vegetation re-grow, but nobody told the water it wasn't allowed to cut chunks of the dune away.

Lighthouse. Point Moore. Geraldton WA

Sand dune, Point Moore. Geraldton WA

It being a nice day, sun almost out, decidedly warmer than the last two weeks. We ate lunch at a cafe on the beach in town. Very pleasant. After that we went and paid our respects to the 654 men who were lost at sea when the HMAS Sydney sank in the waters off Geraldton following a monumental battle with the German Kormran. Since we were here last, they have added a memorial pool representing the exact location of the wreck, which was found in 2008.

HMAS Sydney Memorial. Geraldton WA

HMAS Sydney Memorial. Geraldton WA

This is called The Steele a stylised representation f the prow of the ill-fated ship.
HMAS Sydney Memorial. Geraldton WA

The Dome of Souls: 645 silver gulls representing the crew.
HMAS Sydney Memorial. Geraldton WA

The Waiting Woman, watching out to sea, waiting for the return of her loved ones,
as she has done since time began.
HMAS Sydney Memorial. Geraldton WA

The Pool of Remembrance, representing the coastline at Geraldton,
the exact map reference of the wreck's resting place, both linked by the symbolic dove.
HMAS Sydney Memorial. Geraldton WA

HMAS Sydney Memorial. Geraldton WA