Blogs from Coral Bay, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 8

Day 189 - Coral Bay Beautiful day, beautiful dawn - not that we were up early enough to see it but we didn’t laze around in bed for too long, it’s just too hot! Coral Bay is a beautiful little place that was only established in 1968 with a small settlement immediately put together with tourism in mind. The main attraction here is Australia’s only fringing coral reef where for much of the coast line you can walk out to the stunning array of brightly coloured marine life. It’s very special indeed. There is nothing here to distract you from the beautiful surroundings though, no mass shopping arcades, no funky nightclubs, no flashing lights. What it does have hopefully compliments the fabulous coastline and at the moment it seems to be growing at a steady rate ... read more

Day 187 - Cape Range National Park to Coral Bay This is it people, we are leaving Cape Range today. We’ve spent a glorious 9 days here and it’s been so much fun. There is not a great deal of motivation to pack up and go but we know we need to move on and anyway, things aren’t so bad because most of us are only going down the road to Coral Bay! The Reeves family of Simone, Mark, Zoe, Kenny and Beth plus the Elliott family of Nige, Bel, Lachie and Zali and both of us are all heading for the same campground in Coral Bay. It’s a great group dynamic and we seem to have settled into life by the ocean waves very well! We’re all up early enough to go for one last ... read more

Day Four of our roadtrip was a long day as we drove further North to Coral Bay. We decided to break up the driving with a stop in Carnarvon which is a small town halfway between Denham and Coral Bay. We took the tourist drive into Carnarvon which had us driving past orchards and banana groves as we wound our way into the town centre. We didn't spend much time in Carnarvon, just long enough to walk down to the shore which is also the mouth of the Gascoyne River and cross part of the old steam train tracks which used to run from the town out to the Jetty. Back on the road we continued up to Coral Bay passing an unbelievable amount of road kill on the way. There were so many dead kangaroos, ... read more

Leaving Perth I’d had enough of Perths shitty weather and the cost of everything so I looked into going northwards - where the prices would be the same but at least it would start warming up. The problem I had however was transport - they were not ideal: I didn’t drive; so I couldn’t rent a car or even a camper van - very popular among backpackers here. There was no train line up the west coast of Australia - only up the "Centre", for example Adelaide to Alive Springs which cost 350 Aussie Dollars (175 quid), and that was for a seat only on a journey that took 19 hours! The Greyhound bus north was more expensive at around $400 (200 quid) from Perth to Broome - and at 2,454 Kilometres! The only real option ... read more

Still hanging around Coral bay till Thursday then we will be heading to Exmouth for the weekend to catch up with Tahn, Pip and Kaylee. (woo hoo). Troy had a long day chasing the whale sharks, spose to be back round 3:30ish but 2 hrs later they came back. they had to go really deep but they finally came accross a "big sucker" and swam with that for a while. Well worth the $$$ he said!!! Went out in Ash and Cristie's dingy yesterday, me and Ax watched the boat while the rest went for a snorkel. Saw 2 huge turtles and sting-ray!!! Pretty windy on the hill where we are camped out so we are looking forward to moving on in a couple of days!! a few of the vans that were next to us ... read more