Blogs from Monkey Mia, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Up and about early as it's Paulina's first day as a volunteer with the dolphins and she's awake and marching around the room from 6am...this is no bad thing as I want to get down to the beach to see the dolphin feeding again at 7.45. It's such a lovely tranquil time of day and it's beautiful watching the dolphins come in to feed and then swim away (normally only to return half an hour later for seconds...). Paulina is on the team feeding the dolphins for 5 days which any backpacker can sign up for - wish I'd done more research on this as I'd love to have done the same. Still, at the feeding, Paulina has to randomly select punters to give the dolphin she's looking after (Piccolo today) a fish. I'm 'randomly' (thanks ... read more

We were all up early this morning to grab some breakfast and then get down to the beach to see the dolphins. The crowd of people all had to wait up and off the beach so the dolphins would come in. Around 7:45am the first 5 dolphins appeared in the shallow water of the beach. After letting the dolphins adjust we were all allowed to make our way down to the beach and we had to form a single line on the shore. The dolphins would swim in quite close and you could see them stick one of their eyes up out of the water so they could check us all out. A lady from the resort gave us a talk about the dolphins and how they track them and why they only feed them a ... read more

Thursday 26th - whilst visiting the aquarium yesterday, a couple we got chatting to gave us some tickets to enter the Monkey Mia dolphin experience. We were in two minds about going as it’s a very commercialised operation which we saw last time we were here. But the draw of seeing dolphins close up was too great for me and Graham didn’t take too much persuading. The trouble was that the best dolphin feeding displays are always early – before 8:00am. So we set the alarm for a ridiculous hour and made sure we were on the road in good time to cover the 30 kilometres or so. Graham suggested that, as it was really out of season and such an early start, there may not be many people or dolphins there but he couldn’t have ... read more

After our pit stop in Lancelin we Headed ever north towards the town of Geraldton As beautiful a drive as any - Long and seemingly endless road with naught but brush , bush and red rock .Comparable only to that found on mars. It was, as the previous sentence suggests - otherworldly. We travelled for the most part of a day - stopping only to eat, take photos and get petrol. Once we reached Geralton, Nico and i were very happy to be greeted by our first 'Crazy Clark's' (something we had been told to look out for by our good friends Marie and Ghis Melou (Owners of NOLIMIT Tattoo, in London). Ive always loved pound shops, and to set the scene; 'Crazy Clark's' is what would happen if national chain store The 'pound shop' and ... read more

Coral Bay was a very busy beach place, caravan city. Checked into our windy site and explored what was a very beautiful bay with crystal clear water. Had another snorkel, but was disappointed to see a lot of dead coral close to shore. Was a little better further out. Anyway the water was warm, but chill factor out was not so good. Checked local pub for a few drinks which proved a little more sheltered. Spent the morning on a quad bike, snorkelling trip which we all thoroughly enjoyed. This took us along the beach to Oyster Beach which has some amazing colored fish and coral. Once again chilly, but warm in the water. Next stop was a Lagoon where a few turtles and larger fish were spotted. Once again a great variety of fish to ... read more