Blogs from Coral Bay, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 9

Well Troy paid the big $$$ to go swim with the whale sharks today for a day trip and me and Ax had a chill day which was nice not having to rush around and just do nothing!!!! At the beach now writting this as in town is the only place with service...sooo hard!!!! might crack another beer now ;) CHOW xoxo... read more

Quobba Station provided some welcome isolation and a break from the school holiday crowds. Max, Sam and JoJo adopted Ginger and Peggy, the station horses, who received many treats of apples, carrots and green grass from our boys. Day trips snorkeling, fishing, visiting blowholes and bluffs kept us busy. At Red Bluff we met a fellow called Dave, who shared his freshly caught Tuna sashimi with us and then pointed out a beach shelter that he had made, hammock included, where we spent the rest of the afternoon. Marshmallows were on the dessert menu again, with fires lit nearly every night. Warrara Station was our next stop and we camped on 14 mile beach. The kids were happy to see some other instant friends and we hardly saw them for the next few days. Paul ... read more

A lobster from the water came, And saw another, just the same In form and size, but gaily clad In scarlet clothing, while she had No other raiment to her back, Than her old suit of greenish black. Miss Gould Spiny lobsters belong to a group or ‘genus’ named Panulirus by scientists, after a mythical seaman who fell off his boat, was killed by a band of ferocious Italians, and his spirit forced to wander the shallows forever. They are slightly different to the lobsters we find in the seas around the UK or on plates at your local restaurant; they lack the big grasping front claws, instead their legs end in fine points and the bodies are covered in beautiful patterns of purple and orange. This interesting beastie, patrols the cracks and crevices of shallow ... read more

Tuesday 17th March We started our long journey up the West coast today to Coral Bay. I met the group who i'd be travelling up with in Perth; two German girls Mira and Sabine, Claire from Liverpool and Miya from Taiwan. Our first overnight stop was 10 hours away in Kalbarri. We set off at 8am and after familiarising ourselves with the bus which was to effectively be our home for the next few days we stopped 2 hours later at the Pinnacles Desert. The Pinnacles are a strange sight, it looks almost like a giant desert graveyard. The Aborignal story behind it is that the desert was sinking sand and any man who walked across it would perish as they sank into the yellow sand and the Pinnacles are the men's fingers! After wandering through ... read more

Soaring on wings that cannot fly scouring the sand for life drifting over beds where treasures lie living below the worldly strife Michael R. Ault In days gone by, mariners sailing the high seas caught sight of strange bat-like creatures flying through the water. These monsters reached up to 6m from wing-tip to wing-tip and their heads were topped with a pair of giant black or grey horns. The superstitious sailors named them ‘devil rays’ and steered well clear. Today divers and snorkellers travel half way round the world to swim with these majestic creatures, which have now been renamed ‘manta rays’. Words cannot really describe the beauty of a manta as it twirls and dances through the shallows, they are as graceful as ballerinas but are wider than a lorry. Even the babies are large; ... read more