Yeah...4 months on the road today!
We had a 3+ hr trip in front of us and were keen to get
moving early...but when De asked me what time it was...7:41 was the answer and
we were up and at em’. Amazingly we were fed and on the move by 8:30...and we
really just pottered!
Our first stop was 500m up the road at the blowholes. We
probably should have been to see them sooner but...hey...we’re on holidays!
They were the best blowholes we have seen yet. There were a few holes and when
the big waves came in they really blew!!!
Three and a half hours later of scrub, the occasional goat
and not much else we pulled into coral bay. It was quite weird as the town is
only about 400m long but there are people everywhere!!!! Coral Bay is a big
tourist attraction as the reef is only about 50m off the beach so anybody can
swim out to it. It is also famous for whale sharks (the worlds biggest fish)
and they have tours where you get to swim with them. I enquired and they were a
mere $1200/ family...and here I was thinking it was the Obede’s that were
crook!
Anyway for the next two weeks we are pretty much going to be
‘out of range’ except for one night in Tom Price so doing the washing was top
of the priority list! 4 loads and $20 later we were ready to hit the water.
Our
research had told us to walk a couple of hundred meters around the headland ‘to
the 5 knots sign’ swim out to it and then the current would take us back. What
they failed to mention was that we probably should have gone a few hundred
meters past the sign so we didn’t have to break McEvoys time to beat the
current and make it to the sign! We eventually made it and proceeded to float
our way over the reef. It is a pretty cool experience, a bit un-nerving at
first, as you float along over the reef. Having snorkelled at Quobba
yesterday
I was really excited about today, and while it was good, the reef is soooo
huuuge that the marine life is so spread out that it seems kind of quite. The
water is also about 4 or 5 meters deep so you are a long way away from the
‘action’ making it seem more like a movie than a real life experience.
After drifting for about 25 minutes we were back at our
starting point and despite the ‘other’ three wearing wetsuits we were all
pretty cold. We made a bee line for Izzy and the pool at the van park. In the
afternoon we headed over to the supermarket that doubles as the tackle shop
where I stocked up and the boys each bought a lure each....so much better than
matchbox cars!!!
Being our 4 month anniversary we decided to lash out and go
out for dinner. The pizzas at the park restaurant had some big wraps so we
headed there and we weren’t disappointed. The best part was the German waitress
had misunderstood our order and delivered us a Mexican pizza instead of a works
pizza.....and rather than throwing it out they gave me three pieces...as I
would liked to have ordered it but it would have been too spicy for everybody
else! Yeah for me!
With full bellies we all returned home and the boys were
asleep before their head hot the pillows. We have four nights from tomorrow in
Cape Range National Park, our longest stop on the trip so far. Looking forward
to some snorkelling, bush walking and some awesome fishing...fingers crossed!
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