After leaving Carnarvon, we headed North to Coral Bay, we were only gong to pass though and have a look but after arriving we couldn’t resist staying for a couple of days.
There’s only 2 caravan parks, a hotel motel and a backpackers, its all tourists, they run a few tour boats out of there to swim with the Whale Sharks we chose the closer of the two caravan parks, set up camp, then spent the afternoon snorkeling and relaxing on the beach (with a beer or two).
The next morning we listen to Adam Scott win the US Masters during breakfast then Chris had a bit of work to do so I left him to it and went off snorkeling, it was amazing the amount of fish swimming all around they kept me entertained for hours, in the afternoon at about 3.30 everyone on the beach started walking over to a big group of people standing in the water, we looked at each other wondering what could be going on over there, so after watching for a while we couldn’t resist so we went over for a sticky beak. We were standing in water up to our knees and all these Spangled Emperor’s they were about 60 to 70 cm and they were just swimming around in and out of everyone’s legs it was the most amazing sight, it turns out that every afternoon at 3.30 they get fed, we were very glad we let our curiosity get the better of us it was one of the highlights of our trip
After packing up the next day we headed for Exmouth, Exmouth was established in 1967 as a support town for the Harold E Holt communication station a joint venture between the Aussies and the USA, it passes messages between Australia and the USA command ships in the western pacific and Indian Oceans.
After having a quick look around we stocked up on supplies and headed out to the Ningaloo National Park, there’s a few different camp sites to choose from and we chose Tulki Bay it was closest to Turquois Bay where we could do some more snorkeling and on the other side we were allowed to fish, we caught a couple of nice bream and a long tom which I wasn’t sure I was allowed to keep but he swallowed my hook so I had no choice but to decapitate him, a very hard thing to do now after swimming with and feeding all the beautiful fish I think ill let Chris win our fishing comp, he was winning anyway.
As I was cleaning the fish Chris noticed 3 fins swimming in our direction and the next thing you know this 2 meter long shovel head shark swims right up to us with his head half out of the water it scared the s— out of us.
After a little debate on where our next destination should be we headed for Karijini National Park, we stopped to talk to Mike about his bike then drove 600 km east to Tom Price the highest town in WA and spent the night in the only caravan park amongst the ants, we passed through Parrabadoo a little mining town where the whole town seems to wear the same clothes, florescent yellow and blue shirts, and drive the same cars.
Press play for some Coral Bay Fishing
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