Coral Bay

were quite
Day 43
Monday, 16.3.09

Today we travelled to Coral Bay. Along the way, we came across these anthills poking up everywhere. At first I thought they were boulders and then realised what they were.



Once we arrived at Coral Bay, we settled into a beachfront caravan park and went for a snorkel. The Ningaloo Reef runs along the coast here but it's a fair way out. If you can snorkel out to the coral, you can see beautiful fish. The coral was all a browny colour when we saw it. The heat is horrible. I took a quadbike snorkel/turtle tour in the afternoon which went for 3 hours. The quadbike side of things was great but the wind made the sea too choppy to do much snorkelling (alothough I did see this blue spotted lagoon ray)



and we only got to see the turtles from a cliff swimming in the very choppy ocean. They were quite hard to pick out and very disappointing - I had expected to see them relatively close up on the beach.



By the end of the tour, I was exhausted.