When you are travelling you get a lot of advice from people and I was amazed when a lot of people were telling us to give Monkey Mia a miss. They say its not worth the money, its too crowded.
I am not sure it is the right thing to be feeding the dolphins but they have heaps of volunteers that are supervising the feeds and ensuring the well being of the animals is maintained. Most of what man knows about dolphins has been learned at Monkey Mia through this interaction with the dolphins. Its also better than seeing them in Seaworld or the zoo.
We arrived at a great time with the resort not too crowded and not too many people at the beach, we also experienced a mother with its new calf, which was born the night before. The mother was swimming up the beach right along the shore with its new baby. It was like she was showing off her baby. It was a great experience and a great atmosphere with all the volunteers running around excited about the new baby in the family.
The girls were also picked to feed the dolphins. They were very lucky as they only pick 3 people out of the hundreds lining up on the beach.
We went for a sail on the Shotover a magnificent catamaran which I believe once held some ocean racing speed records.
We went for a sail on the Shotover a magnificent catamaran which I believe once held some ocean racing speed records.
We also got to see many Dugongs which none of us have seen before, which was very cool!
Monkey Mia is somewhere I have wanted to go since I was a little girl, now I can tick that one off my list.
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