Monkey Mia - Day 3 of our 11 day tour ...Wild DolphinsWednesday A bit of a sleep in this morning at Monkey Mia. I make some lovely bacon and eggs for breakfast including toast and cereal. Sue who has been down at the beach again, comes back to the rest of us and says the dolphins are already there. We all rush off to see these wonderful creatures. Dolphins have been coming to Monkey Mia for many decades and at the moment up to seven dolphins visit each day. These are all named and the Rangers will tell you all about them as you see the dolphins. I head back and pack up the bus and trailer ready to leave and fail to witness Sally being selected to feed the dolphins a fish. The rangers choose a few people from the crowd to feed the fish. You need to remember these are wild creatures and they only receive very minimal fish and they have to hunt their own as well.
Dolphin at Monkey Mia Itinerary of our 11 day tour where you can join us with the dolphins. After a very pleasant morning we leave Monkey Mia and arrive at Shell Beach. This beach is covered with millions of tiny shells (naturally that is why it is called Shell Beach). The shells are 10 metres deep in places and a lot of the houses in Denham were built from these shells. This no longer happens with a strict control over the removal of the shells with only a very limited number now used and these mostly to repair existing dwellings.
Shell Beach We have some rolls/sandwiches for lunch and continue on. We stop at Carnarvon for a bit of a toilet break and I can’t help myself and have to have some more calcium (ice-cream). On the way in you will see the OTC dish that once participated in the space race to put a man on the moon where vision was sent via Carnarvon. The station closed after assisting in tracking Halley’s Comet in 1987. We leave the “banana area” and turn off at Minilya Roadhouse with Coral Bay not far away. There are quite a number of wild animals on the road with many goats, sheep, cows and lots of crows and a couple of wedge-tailed eagles eating the road kill that have been hit the night before. It can be quite dangerous driving around here at nights. I have actually cleaned up a couple of kangaroos myself – boy do they make a mess of your car if you haven’t got a roo bar. We arrive at Coral Bay late in the afternoon (some may call it early in the evening – about 6.30pm) and set up camp for the next three nights. I light the BBQ and we have a lovely barbecue and salad followed by some (tour made of course) apple crumble with fresh cream. Once again a few people disappear for a drink while others sit around talking and listening to music while watching the stars. Table of Contents of our 11 day tour diary including Monkey Mia
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