Blogs from Coral Bay, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 6

Saturday 4th – overnight it rained heavily and woke us up - it was still very overcast in the morning so we had a bit of a lie-in. We had decided to have a quietish day to get over the rigours of the Manta Ray trip so it was late morning when we walked to the Bakery for a loaf of bread. Even I was tempted by the splendid array of lovely cakes there, but we resisted them and just came away with the bread! After lunch the skies cleared a bit so we strolled down on to the beach. We wanted to walk along the beach in the direction of the boat ramp we had used for our trip yesterday but the tide was very high cutting off a dry route. Undaunted, we just waded ... read more

Tuesday 31st and we were on our way to Coral Bay. Today’s journey was not too long at 238 kms and was fairly uneventful. At roughly the half way point we pulled in to Minilya Roadhouse for a break. When we arrived there was one car/caravan and a smallish road-train. By the time we were ready to leave there were about 10 car/caravan combinations and a second HUGE road-train. It had three long trailers and, in total, must have been about 100 meters long - probably the longest we have ever seen. We got chatting to some fellow caravanners about good places to stay and we were pleased that the huge wagon went back out on the road before we did so we didn’t have to worry about it wanting to overtake us. We kept the ... read more

Greetings all, David and I decided to leave on Sunday from Yardie Creek, Brian and Debbie said they would stay until the weather is better. We took off had a lovely sail down to a gorgeous Bay not sure what it was called still inside the reef. We had a reasonable sleep although the wind came up during the night we were up a few times checking on things. We set sail at 7.00pm for Coral Bay today (Monday) and can I say it was a very spirited sail, we went outside the reef as the next stretch of the reef has lots of ‘Bommies’ which are large coral heads so you need to be very careful. Anyway……. back to where I was very spirited sail, we sailed between 7.5 – 11 knots whoo hoo…….. were ... read more

Monday 18th We are now in Coral Bay pulled in at 5.00 yesterday afternoon, had a swim then drinks etc…. Today we decided we would try and walk into Coral Bay village, we would have to get on the small boat to motor to shore. I got out of the boat thinking I was safe when David yelled, watch out, the boat knocked me to the water. The wave had pushed the boat onto me. I got soaked and just laughed what else could I do, would have made a great action shot but at the time the camera was the last thing on our minds. We then thought we had a walk of about a 1k, but we walked the1 k and realised we had a long hard walk in the sand to get to ... read more

As humpback whales migrated south we were getting further north, along the beautiful and remote West Coast of Australia. The sheer scale of the country tipping the kilometres into the thousands. With tourist brochures and notes from other travellers literally spilling out of the glove box we came to the highly recommended Quobba. The name, sounding like a teasing cricket toss, enticed us to play and we duly pitched up in the midday heat. We had been reliably informed that camping by the beach would be free as the ranger had 'gone home' for the season. This refreshing occurrence was indeed true and we set about finding a spot to camp. The heat outside of our air conditioned Holden was stifling. A dry heat that was made worse by the amount of flies that pestered our ... read more