Days 18-19 Exmouth (23-24 September)

Update:  check out blog entry Days 9-10 Denham for video on shark feeding.

Day 17 -We are now 1442kms north from Busselton.  We are really happy to be in Exmouth it really is one of our favourite places.  Anther hot day and no wind.  We walked into town to pick up a few supplies and check out the diving/snorkelling tours.  John booked to dive the navy jetty on Friday - this is one of the top 10 dive sites and we are booked to do dive/snorkel tour on Sunday at Murion Islands (16kms boat ride).  Hoping to see turtles on this trip.  It is 34 degrees and no wind, went for a swim at the park pool - it was cold but yummy.  We had our prawns for lunch today - delish - ate a whole kilo between us, piggies.  Something funny happened today while I was putting some washing on the line, two emus went waltzing by, I could have touched them they were that close and they were totally unperterbed, we saw them later in town.  There are a lot of emus around Exmouth.  Apparently there is a father emu along the beach track who is very protective of his chicks and will attack dogs (an emu killed a poodle a few years ago on this track) so on the lookout. Coco loves walking to the beach as there are lots of roos that she can smell and see.

Day 18 - Expecting a hot day up to 34 degrees, got up early and went to well known Turquoise Bay for a snorkel.   Not too many people when we arrived (about 9.30am) but by the time we left it was quite busy although not overly so.  We stopped at the Milyering Visitor Interpretative Centre and saw a sea eagle had a nest on a communications tower (photo).  We had some great snorkelling went with the drift snorkel, the current was very strong today can see why some people end up in trouble.  The water was very chilly but bearable.  Saw our first sea snake (black and white striped one - we learnt at Ocean Park they are harmless), angel fish, wrasse, triggerfish, spangled emperors and some lovely coral.  It is encouraging to see some of the coral is re-sprouting with some pretty colours.  It is a spectacular snorkel and you can walk out to the reef and it is probably not more than 2 metres deep.  We are going back again before we leave.  We discovered some other good snorkeling sites while we were in the national park that we will do before we leave as well.  We don't have an underwater camera so can't show you how speccy it is, but if travelling this way it is a definite must do.  Unfortuntely as it is in the national park we couldn't take Coco and left her in the caravan, (I had taken Coco to the beach for an hour walk before we left so felt a little happier leaving her), we asked the lady next door to keep an ear out for her and to call us if there was a problem, she didn't hear a peep from her which was good - we hope she is as good on Sunday when we go to the Murion Islands.  We also checked out some other beaches that we can take Coco too and these look really good too - so we'll fit them in as well.  At this rate we will be here for months.  The chap next door to us had been out in his boat fishing today and gave us some fish (not sure what it was) we had it for dinner, it was delicious.  Sigh, what a life.