Monkey Mia

 

We were so excited to have our 3rd overtake in 8 months!!!!

 We arrived in at "Shark Bay" World heritage area. Both excited for what we would see and discover.

Entrance into the resort, very flash, and it should be for $16 per person per night.

Then the girlies saw ......

 an emu

 and it wouldn't leave us alone.

 We went for a lovely stroll to the beach before we were scheduled to depart for our sunset cruise on the "shot over" catamaran. There was a beautiful dolphin hanging around the shore that wan up so close. What a special welcoming. Sahara and Delta started barking and alerted all the tourist's that there was dolphins on the shore, and ended up embarrassing us totally by acting like spastic's.

 The sunset catamaran tour was amazing, but we came at the wrong time as the mast had broken and was being repaired in China of all places. So we "potted" along with the motor, but it was stunning. Laying on the net and cuddling up on the bean bags was something we will never forget, and a great way to spend our 5 year wedding anniversary.

 

This Emu would not leave us alone, and stalked us for the whole time we were there. We decided to stay another night, so we could get out the Kayak and Nick wanted to have a fish.

It ended up drinking out of Sahara's bowl, it looked really thirsty, then dropped dirty wet poo's everywhere through the park. It was sad watching how people treated this emu, and we were quite outraged that no "warning" system had been put into place for visitors. We were warned that they don't like dogs, particularly small ones, so to pick up Delta if it got aggressive. It did. Other people were feeding it one minute then pushing it away at other times, even going as far to throw camp chairs at them. We complained.

 

 Sunset from the Jetty.

 We got up early and joined the 100+ people for a "dolphin interaction" no promises to feed them and we were unlucky and weren't one of the 12 selected ( what odds) and we decided to leave our girlies in the car, to avoid embarrassing situations.

In the end 3 dolphins cam up to be fed, and a couple of baby's were left further back. I was a little sketchy about all this dolphin feeding, but was explained quite well. They don't just feed any dolphins, there are 5 females that are fed, and if they have real young babies they don't get fed. They also get a very small amount of their daily diet, so they do not become dependent.

 

When we did leave we stopped at Shell beach.... Which was just as the name sounds, what surprised us was just how large the bay was.

Trillion of tiny little shells instead of sand.

 

 
We stopped into Hamelin Pool, which has the Australia's or the worlds oldest living "thing" called Stromolites. Ok, sorry, i'm not too technical, and cant give you much more. They were just basically rocks on the ocean floor.

 

Then we found a nice spot, on the top of a lookout, and ate some special truffles, mmmmm

We arrived about 30 km out of Carnarvon and decided to spend a few days, well we are actually still there, at New Beach. Great spot, and not too many people are around, surprising that its school holidays. We did venture into town and noticed that everything is booked out and accommodation is premium here. We did the "fruit loop" and picked up a whole heaps of produce, mostly organic. At amazing prices, frozen mango cheeks, tray of about 6  cheeks or $5, 2kg tangelo's for $3, Banana's, chocolate pudding fruit (yes, I know, nick was impressed) we also grabbed some fresh pecan nuts as well as a whole heap of veg. We are now headed back to our spot, to soak up the sun.

 

 

 Its been about 30 degrees and sunny, warm, beautiful weather. Cant complain, we do think of you Adelaide folks back home .