Ocean Centre Hotel
Travel Blogs from Geraldton
Day 53
Dolphin feeding take two! After another night of being blown about by the wind it subsided in the morning. I began packing up very early as we had decided to move onto Geraldton a day early because of the relentless wind and because there wasn't anything more to do without going on more cruises and we are just about all cruised out. We walked to the dolphin feeding area again with our fingers crossed. The signs were looking bad with a very low tide and the new baby dolphin affecting ...
Magnificent Shark Bay
... I then went to Eagle Bluff which gives a view of the ocean from up high. It is a place where 100's of sharks and rays assemble in the early morning and late afternoon. However it was very windy and this affects how many will attend this spot which is very shallow. Well I still spotted a lot of sharks and rays and they looked big from where I was stood!
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Good time in Greenhough
... I have done.
I drove north along the scenic and relatively new Indian Ocean Highway and my intention was to stop at one or two places on the way. The first place I stopped off was a little village called Lancelin which is about 130 km's from Perth. The first thing that hit me as I got out of the van was the salty sea air. It was wonderful and cleared the ...
Pleasant town
... The memorial is just beautiful, with a large silver dome with 645 seagulls cut into it. It is believed when a sailor is lost they return to Earth as a sea gull. There is a rememberance fountain and a wall with all the names of those lost recorded. There is a beautiful statue of a woman staring out to sea waiting for her man to come home, also a stylised structure of the prow of the ...
Driving South Again Back to Perth
... the Aussie Fly syndrome while we were there, the Aussie Wave came into practice quite quickly otherwise they would find a way into your mouth, nose and ears. The Asians used their brochures to flick them off and the Europeans wore their T-Shirts to make a barrier, we spotted one wise woman, she had a hat with a net attached, she obviously knew what she was doing. We just waved continuously.
Back in the car again to navigate the ...
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