Blogs from Coral Bay, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 11

In case you were worried i survived the surfing escapades. Bali was awesome; the surfing, the food, the gili's, the drunk nights out...and sharing it with jimmy and flash topped it off. It was great to see them. We arrived in Darwin 1st October and what a shock that was....it was dead. How anybody can live there i dont understand. I apologise if i offend anyone, but there is absolutely nothing to do, except eat and go to 'The Lost Arc' for TOT (tits out tuesdays). I imagine its just a main point for entry/exit and to transfer to the major tour expeditions, but if you dont need to go there....dont bother. Richie and i were pretty bored until the rest of the gang arrived...Lisa, Segal and Darryl. (Darryl's eyes when the dancers demonstrated TOT was ... read more

CORAL BAY - 150km south of Exmouth and 1200km north of Perth On the 23rd of September we woke early (around 7am), packed up our stuff and said our goodbyes to the lovely camp hosts - who reminded me again about the dangers of snakes. Safely in our van we cruised back to Exmouth to pick up supplies and fuel before carrying on south to Coral Bay. About 15mins later I saw something out of the corner of my eye in the ocean but ignored it. Ten seconds later Maria shouted “WHALE” at me forcing me to pull over J We could both see him quite clearly in the distance and by chance we had pulled over next to a dirt track leading away from the road towards the shore. We drove down in (a little ... read more

Coral Bay during the school holidays, not the ideal time for a visit and we probably got one of the last camping spots in the first of the two campsites there. Just as well we had phoned ahead. Disappointing place really, not much to do except head to the beach or pay a fortune for a boat trip. A lot of the kids were snorkelling just off shore, but when we tryed it it wasn't up to much. In one section there were a lot sandy coloured stingrays in the shallows, but they were impossible to see until they moved and mindful of Steve Irwin's fate we soon tired of that activity too. We cooked in the pitiful camp kitchen and stayed a while talking with some Dutch who had driven that far from Darwin in ... read more

7.30am. The day had arrived. Big Blue Wobbly Fish Day. I have been looking forward to doing this for years, by all accounts the most worthwhile thang to do when to comes to fish and swimmer interaction. Why? They're huge, anything between 5 and 30m. The biggest one in this area is normally around 14m. Its real hit and miss with these things. Unlike whales they're sharks! Really. Which means they dont have to come up for air, so could in theory potter around in the deepest depths. The good news is they come to coral bay between march and june to feed on the abundant supply of plankton that Ningaloo Reef has. Note abundant supply of plankton, abundant supply of plankton, abundant supply of plankton, they dont eat ´me´ meat. I arrived at the ... read more

So ... these past two days we spent most of the time on the road, covering kilometers, in the desert and its few resorts... Coral bay, then Exmouth, Auski... Direction Broome. Being on the road is quite interesting actually... we made friends with fellows backpackers and had lots of fun spotting wildlife of the area ('roos). Last night we camped in the middle of the Karijini NP desert... A bit scarry - especially after hearing all the snake & scorpion stories just before bedtime from our guide... which would inevitably end : "no worries though... if you get bitten we have few hours..." Few hours until what???? The night at the camp site went fine though... the cold and the dingo's walking in between our tents and houwling didn't keep us up at all! (hmm) ... read more