Coral Bay

Tuesday morning and two more days in this delightful spot.  Yet another beautiful turquoise bay, with golden sands, lovely walks along the beach, and as a bonus a magnificent bakery with real coffee. Woohoo !!

We are really enjoying our time here.  The weather is gorgeous, the temperatures perfect, warm days and cool nights allowing our wardrobe to consist only of shorts & singlet tops, and so far we have avoided all the wet & stormy weather happening further south in the Perth area.

On Saturday night, just for a change, we were in the middle of a highly charged crowd at the one and only pub in town, to watch the AFL semi final & subsequently the Fremantle Dockers take the match with a resounding win over Sydney Swans.  To say the pub erupted is a bit of an understatement,  with purple balloons, streamers & jumpers everywhere.  I think I spotted one Sydney supporter skulking in the corner :-)

We resorted to the pub because we were told that there was no TV coverage in the caravan park.  Uncharacteristically, Trevor (who usually has a go anyway) took them at their word this time, and didn't wind our TV aerial up or even try and tune us in.  However since then, on seeing a couple of other aerials standing proud, he did decide to give it a go, only to find that we are able to get ABC1 & Channel 7.  Only analogue channels, but hey, at least we get to watch the news or X factor, yay! Don't want to miss either of those programmes (she says with tongue in cheek).  But the news is at least useful to remind us what day it is.

Now back to the bay - in this amazing clear water each afternoon on cue at 3.00pm a large number of big fat snapper come into the shallows to be fed.  Similar to the Monkey Mia experience with dolphins I should imagine, but with less numbers of tourists, the fish swim amongst the legs of the the people standing ankle deep in the water and vie for the pellets of food that one of the tour operators distributes to willing participants.  It's lovely to hear the delighted squeals of the kids as the fish jostle for position & even poke their heads out of the water to grab a morsel.

Another interesting phenomena is, once again as regular as clockwork and every day, a large number of reef sharks accumulate in another bay just a short walk away, to feed each afternoon around 4.30pm.
That bay is a shark nursery & sanctuary, and although they swim tantalisingly close to shore, it is just far enough out that taking good clear photos of them is nigh on impossible.  We just had to be satisfied with seeing them & enjoying the moment.  There's nothing quite as fascinating as any sort of wild life going about their business in their natural environment, don't you think?

Thursday we are moving down to Carnarvon, where we will stay for a few days.  Hopefully finally get our fridge fixed, which in spite of the efforts of Steve in Port Hedland, is still not operating properly on gas.  We will also catch up with the Hays, from Upper Hutt, New Zealand who are at the tail end of their Aussie trip.  So that will be nice.

More later then.  Ciao xx