Coral Bay Backpackers

... beautiful and the Ningaloo Reef is literally about 10 metres from the shore, the
reason for our visit here.

On our second day here we went on a 2 hour boat trip, it had a glass bottom saw quite alot of fish and coral. We then had a
chance to get off and do a 30 minutes snorkel. It was good but it was quite choppy and we had swim against the current which
was quite difficult as I am a ...

... Ningaloo Reef, haben viele bunte Fische, Manta Rochen, Schildkroeten, Delphine .... gesehen.








Eine nette Aussicht, wenn man in der Frueh aus dem Camper steigt.




Nur 1 Bucht weiter sind nur noch ein paar Fischer und Kite-Surfer am km-langen Strand anzutreffen. Einfach paradisisch.

... second park which is directly opposite the beach.
The next day (Thursday) We entered the water which was coolish to go snorkelling in. We hired some flippers and emmy hired some goggles and snorkel as we all were going in. Emily had a ball seeing all the fish and pointing them out for her age i thought she did well breathing through the snorkel. We have been hoping to see a turtle under the water but no such luck so far.
The coral is dying and even though ...

Coral bay kind of speaks for itself. White sand beaches beautiful clear water and weather was great. Rented snorkeling gear and into the water which was a little cool but fine. Straight away there was quite a lot to see. The following day I went out on a kayak trip further out to sea and do more snorkeling. You see a lot more further out, huge snapper, turtles, eagle rays and some small sharks. Turned out to be a really good trip.

... Once again, the waters are crystal clear turquoise and the marine life is abundant straight off the beach. The coral is less colourful than at Turquoise Bay (it's limestone based?) but still it is overwhelming to swim amongst such a stunning natural environment. There is fish-feeding here every day and once again the fish are nearly as big as the kids but they are unperturbed. The kids that is.

Coral Bay, Western Australia, Australia hindmarsh

... a vegan, pay by donation dinner that she runs every Monday night at the FERN (Fremantle Environmental Resource Network). We arrived a bit early for dinner and started to help prepare. Luckily preparing was almost finished so I mostly swept up and helped a 6 year old kid eat fresh Mulberries from a tree in the yard. The dinner was excellent and the 40 or so people who showed up were rather interested and excited that Soupy was our first stop in Australia. Mimosa ...

... a nice coffee again in Exmouth, as well as pick up some groceries. From there, we just drove straight to Coral Bay.

Coral Bay is extremely small compared to the other coastal towns round here. It has two caravan parks, a supermarket and a couple of other shops. We managed to get the last powered site at one of the caravan parks (not sure of the status of the ...

... famille des requins viennent se nourir dans le lagon pas loin d'une plage, où beaucoup de zooplanctons & phytoplanctons prolifèrent. Le seul pb pour nous c'est que l'eau était tellement trouble que nous pouvions voir les raies depuis le bateau, mais une fois dans l'eau même a 50cm d'elles pas de visibilite. On n'a pas trainé dans l'eau car de grands requins tigres (6m) et parfois même des grd requins blancs viennent attaquer les raies...

... in our caravan, plus the bakery was way TOO good - too many visits there!
Exmouth was interesting! We stayed out at Yardie Creek Caravan Park initially but had to move because we ran out of water as there was only limited drinking water and we had gone over 2 weeks without a fresh water shower! It was a great place for adults but not a family place, no playground, couldn't plug in our toaster, kettle ...