Two days snorkeling, relaxing and watching the beautiful coastline around Exmouth – it’s time to move south to Coral Bay, another Paradis on Earth:

• Turquoise water
• Miss Britzie now in an upperclass caravan camp,  parked for the drivers to have a fantastic seaview, first thing to enjoy when we rise at the same time as the sun in the morning
• In early morning or late evening it’s possible to put on our Asics, jogging along the beach – nice to be in contact with the inner sports entusiasme again
• Diving the world class Ningaloo Reef (Peter) and snorkeling (Charlotte) in warm, crystal clear water, fish, coral and amazing array of marine creatures – an unforgetable experience.
  (Peter had his dive certification back in the late century, and to dive here requires a registration in the PADI-system – could the diving company find his name after that many years??? Waiting for the answer 12 hours: YES he was there = 50 minutes diving)
• Swimming for ½ hour with a graceful manta ray, spotted by plane – wauw… the big (3 m)  dancer takes our ”under water breathing away” and makes us forget everyting around us – enthralling us with his antics. It’s so amazing to follow this creature, just letting him guiding us.

 Bateman Sanctuary:

• 4WD off-road track, climbing mountains of sand to find a lttle lagune, spotting turtles, snorkeling, Ch. acting ”8 years old”, finding coloured shells on the beach, spending ¾ h forming a heart, P reading his Di Morisson book: Hey, are we Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden.

Shark Bay:

• ·     Sttromatolites – very speciel: Microorganismes forms this large club shaped objects, found when life on earth began
• ·      Shell Beach – this unique beach is made up of countless tiny sea shells, naturally compacted in a depth of 10 m. It’s a hugh, gigantic and very white superb playground for us adults, walking and enjoying the wind blowing the shells away, when we throw them into the air and they disappear as if they were small clouds in the sky
• ·     Monkey Mia: - waiting 2 hours on a sandy beach to watch the elegant dolphins coming in to the shore to be fish-feeded – ups – no luck there. It seems as they are not hungry this morning or the tide is to low, nevertheless we feed our own mouths (not with fish), having a guest joining us – a curious emu, big as an elephant.

Dongara – Perth is calling:

• The 17th of this holy christmas month we haven’t taken part of baking christmas cakes or eating ”ris a’la mande en masse”, nor drinking X-mas – it’s not on the shedule when 570 k’s is our distance for the day, including stops for lookouts, kissing and swimming and another similar bunch of Diesel has to be burned the next day.
• We should be in Perth Saturday the 19th – and maybe then it’s time for a night out, having fun, music and a single Red Back beer.
 

Cheers

Charlotte and Peter

PS: As we leave Dongara driving on Indian Ocean Drive we take sidetrack from the main road for a beach view – and there they were – the dolphins who didn’t show up yesterday at Monkey Mia – what a lovely sight!