Monkey Mia
Travel Blogs from Monkey Mia, Australia
Monkey Mia
... they are brilliant to see nonetheless. We did an interesting walk around the National Park and I attempted to snorkel at Monkey Mia bay which failed miserably only succeeding in making me look like a fool, surrounded by 4 year-old Aussie ...
"Rain, rain, rain, a little sun, rain, rain...!"
... and canyon walking cancelled because of the weather, didn't help the cause. To rub salt into our wounds, it even rained at Monkey Mia, where the dolphins come into shore for their daily feeding. Usually you can sit with them in the sea in your ...
Bottle noses
Having arrived in Monkey Mia which is famous for bottle nose dolphins we were made to wait for the dolphins to come to shore in the meanwhile I watched German tourists get angry at the vollies for why the dolphins didn't come when they were meant to and ...
Monkey Mia and Shark Bay
... as we were almost on the edge of the beach. On Sunday we visited the sight which we had come all this way to see, Monkey Mia. In Shark Bay there is an estimated 900 dolphins, now these are wild animals, they literally live in the sea and Monkey Mia ...
Monkey Mia, Shark Bay - Dolphins.
The dolphins of Monkey Mia are known all around the world. When we were travelling overseas and said we came from WA, Monkey Mia was almost inevitably mentioned. Well, that was if they had ever HEARD of Western Australia - many haven't! We got to ...
The Ghetto
... teaming with life all in all fully justifying its world heritage status. So with some degree of anticipation we arrived at the Monkey Mia Dolphin resort - or the Ghetto as we rapidly re named it. So bad is it that Zach already has constipation from ...
Dusty, dirty and happy
We've thoroughly enjoyed our 4 nights in Monkey Mia, despite giving the campsite a slating. The main highlight was seeing the dolphins coming in so close to shore. At Monkey Mia, they have been feeding dolphins for 30 odd years and it is one ...
Looking for dolphins
... yet MORE gorges and at noon, we arrive at Monkey Bay, which apart from its dolphins also is the most western part of Australia. The Monkey Mia caravan park and resort IS the whole village. There is NO internet nor mobile reach, cut off the world! The ...
Dolphins and an Aborigional Tour
... animals. It was great to learn more about aboriginal culture, how they view their land and Capes was a great tour guide. We left Monkey Mia and headed into Francois Peron National Park – 4WD time! We had to let our tyre pressures down and then we ...
Monkey Mia, ein Paradies mit wenigen Touristen
... naechster Naehe betrachten kann. Es ist mit Abstand mein Lieblingsplatz in Australien. eure Sabina Miedzy 1. i 3. czerwca bylam w Monkey Mia na wschodnim wybrzezu Australii. Ten Resort jest swiatowej slawy. Kazdego ranka przyplywaja delfiny az do ...
Hinter´m elektrischen Zaun
... ! Seit einer Woche bin ich nun hinter dem elektrischen Zaun mitten im Project Eden inkl. Francois Peron National Park und Monkey Mia Reserve. Das hat nichts mit Knast oder Paradies zu tun... sondern mit der Rehabilitation endemischer Tiere und Pflanzen, ...
Monkey Mia
Three and a half months later and we are back in Perth getting organised to travel the rest of Australia. Our time in Monkey Mia was great, we earnt good money, made loads of great friends and worked hard. The job was fine, as with any job there was ...
Day 172
... were practically black from the number of flies on them. Er…. Ploughed on towards Shark Bay, and finally arrived at our destination, Monkey Mia, at teatime. No idea why it’s called that, there’s not a monkey in sight. Our room is like a ...
Western Australia tour - dag 3
In de ochtend gingen we naar Monkey Mia. Om 7:30 in de ochtend stonden we daar al op het strand te wachten totdat de dolfijnen tevoorschijn zouden komen. Bleef zelf maar in de schaduw in een hut wachten. Er waren een boel toeristen naar het strand ...
No to jestesmy-gdzie sa delfiny?
... !) i troche opoznila nasze pakowanie. Na szczescie potem poczula sie jak nowo nardzona. Wyglada to na jakis dziwny wirus... Do Monkey Mia dotarlismy po poludniu. Oprocz osrodka wczasowego polaczonego z kempingiem nie ma tu juz nic. Pogoda sie zepsula i ...
Perly, delfiny i duongi
Dzien zaczelismy wczesnie, bo o 7.30 bylismy juz na plazy. Nie wiem skad delfiny wiedza ktora jest godzina, ale jak doszlismy na plaze, to grupka juz krecila sie jakies 100 metrow od plazy. Rowno o 7.30 delfiny zaczely podplywac na mielizne. Wtedy jakies ...
Volunteering
We are officially volunteers at the Monkey Mia Resort, other wise known as 'Vollys'! I start tomorrow, Stu starts on Thursday and we both work until Sunday 27 August (yeah) We will be helping to fid the dolphins fish (which we will have to prepare) ...
A place to be
Jaaa, wo soll ich da anfangen? … In den letzten Tagen prasselten dermaßen viele Eindrücke auf ein, dass es echt schwer ist, das in Textform zu bringen. Wo fing das alles an? Ok, der Flug hierher war schon großartig. Als sich dann Perth ...
dolphin watching but no blogging... yet!
plenty of dolphin watching and snorkelling here, but no cheap internet to blog, so no big blog entry yet! sorry. ...
Glass Bottom Boat and Dolphins
We hired a glass bottom boat for half an hour and we saw loads of crabs, mussells and oysters and then we saw the Shovel Nosed Ray..... The Ray was over a metre long ... the website says: These harmless Shovelnoses enter the shallows on a rising ...
Holy Dooly - this is the life!
... pick her!) Dont be fooled by the resort accomodation - we havent traded the kombi in for a room, but the whole place is called Monkey Mia resort. Its the only place you can stay at down this end of the park and it consists of cabins, camping ...
Tour Day 3: Dolphins and the beach
... on the beach this morning, we needed it!! ...Not until we'd seen the early morning dolphin 'show' though. We were at Monkey Mia, a small resort that's basically based around this small group of wild dolphins that come into the bay every morning to woo ...
I'll be there..........
Look at the text under the pictures.... Can you tell what it is yet? (in a Rolf Harris stylee ...
West Coast Mission: Day 7
... The previous night after I'd passed out Loody had found some lesbians to play with, Maria, Jaime and Emma, who all work at Monkey Mia. Jaime and Emma are a couple and work in the kitchen and bar respectively and Maria works on reception. They'd invited ...
the wheels on the van go round and round, at last
... swam with stingrays & parrot fish and as the wind got up we smuggled our peanuts back into the van and off to Monkey Mia, a stop on everyone's itinerary due to the predictable visits from bottle nosed dolphins each morning. The next day we got up at ...
Shattered! Roadside camp, not beach camp!
... rises – that doesn't happen in Melbourne! Today we took off towards a town called Denham, in Shark Bay with the well-known Monkey Mia nearby. The plan was to get to Denham and get supplies – food, fuel and water – then head out to the ...

