Exmouth & Coral Bay

Thursday 4th November 2010

Exmouth

Long drive today to Exmouth, over 600k. We decided to stay in Exmouth for 3 days. Booked into a lovely caravan park which had a great pool.

This has been the first time we have seen emus in the wild up close.  They are everywhere, they come up to you in the caravan park especially if you have food.  Someone has been feeding these ones.

Spent the day at Cape Range National Park which is the coastline for the famous Ningaloo Marine Park.  We spent the day at Turquoise bay, this crystal clear lagoon is great for snorkeling. 

Beautiful colourful fish and coral with Green Turtles were some of the things we got to see underwater.  Emily has always enjoyed snorkeling.  Its great now we have Sami hooked as well.

We have now been travelling with a family from Christchurch who have 2 lovely boys.  They were in Cape York in September when they got a message to call home.  At that time they didn't realise that have been hit by a earthquake.  They called home and found out that their home has been destroyed during the earthquake.  They have decided to keep travelling, as they said its only a home and another one can be built at another time.

Coral Bay

We have decided to stay in Coral Bay for7 nights.  Sometimes you just have to have a holiday,even when you are on holidays! 

We have spent a lot of time in each town for a few days but we feel we need to stay somewhere for a longer period so we can just relax and not have to drive anywhere.

Our friends from New Zealand have also decided to stay for a week.  The caravan park is right on the beach which is a perfect place to stay.  The snorkeling is fantastic here, you just have to step into the water and the marine life and coral is all around.

It did hit home just how the west coast has not yet been overly exploited like the east coast. The major reason being a lack of fresh drinking water. The water here is drawn up from several kilometers underground and needs to be desalinated to make it drinkable, the settlement has it's own power station and desalination plant powered by several large wind turbines on the coast.

We also had a lovely boat trip in a glass bottom boat where we saw some of the 500 species fish that live in this area. 

We were all feeling very relaxed at Coral Bay, we could stay here for ever!