Moving on again, I left Carnarvon for Denham, which is the main town for the Shark Bay World Heritage area. The trip was another of the long haul, not much to see, driving through high wind areas, and only a couple of roadhouse stops along the way. This leg was about 329 kms, and in fact was a "J" type trip, in that Denham is located on a peninsula, Cape Peron, which effectively divides Shark Bay into two halves. Shark Bay Marine Park is over 700,000 hectares in area and encompasses about 1500 kms of coastline, and is home to many species of marine life, the major ones being the habitat for the largest number of dugongs in the world (over 10,000 at last count), along with the usual dolphins, rays, turtles, fish, prawns, crabs and
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