Here we are in Exmouth and a bit earlier than we originally intended. We decided to drive straight through so it was quite a drive. Out in this part of the country you really feel the enormity and vastness of the land. On the way here was nothing, nothing and more nothing. You can literally see for miles and miles.
Exmouth is a great little town, with a beautiful coastline and great seafood. We went down to Kailis seafood for lunch with Haydn and Teresa (people we met in point Samson) and had ourselves a big feed of fresh prawns and bought ourselves a couple of crabs for dinner. Teresa threw in a mosh of her home -made chowder and we were on and done for the days dinning.
We took a drive up on top of the Cape ranges to get an amazing view of the coastline and the Cape gorges. We also head off around to the lighthouse to see the view from the other side of the point and check out the beautiful waters of the Ningaloo reef.
Yesterday we hired a 7m boat with Haydn and Teresa to get out in the ocean and get some BIG ones. The weather however was crap when we set off with white caps and a lumpy 2-3 meter swell so it wasn’t too long before poor ol’ Pip was adding burley to the water. We had to head back to shore and get her off the boat, as she was quite upset at the whole ordeal. So as you probably guessed it that was also the end of my fishing too. The other three set off again to catch some dinner (which they did) and check out the marine life (which they did) they rang us about an hour later, the swell had calmed and they were watching the whales frolicking around the boat. Teresa was screaming at the top off her lungs because she thought they were going to run into the boat. How excellent was that (for them) meanwhile Pip and I was feeling a bit envious and slightly disappointed (at least I was) at missing out. Of course when the others got back we copped the teasing from the boys on what “a whale of a time” they had and the whole “you should have been there”. To be honest there were no movies or photos from Mike so maybe it was all in their mind????. Pip and I did however get to see our own wild life which was two crazy!! Emus’ running around on the local field.
The whale shark season is over although there are still a few about but as the wether is quite windy we are giving the boat trips a bit of a miss. We will leave swimming with the whale sharks till next trip.
We went out cape range national park and just check out the colour of the water at turquoise bay. I don’t need to say much more about that or you too might be just a bit envious and slightly disappointed you’re not here :(
Still a couple of days left here in Exmouth then its of to Coral Bay for a bit more snorkelling action.
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