Day 28 Exmouth (3 October)

We have had a fantastic day.  We started with a snorkel at a site known as Oyster Stacks (3kms south of Turquoise Bay and 66kms from town in the national park).  It is one of the best snorkels we have done (I think better than Turquoise).  Access is via rocks but not difficult and straight away you are in the 'aquarium'.   There is so much coral and fish life it is unbelievable.  Whilst we didn't see any different fish the ones we saw were big.  The water temperature was OK, a little cool but because there was so much too see you didn't notice.  Unfortuantely we weren't aware that the best time to snorkel there is mid to high tide and we got there just as the tide was going out so it was fairly shallow (hence lots of people leaving as we got there plus the wind had picked up).  Didn't stop us enjoying immensely though even though it meant we could only do one snorkel safely without damaging the coral or ourselves.  It is definitely a must do and we will do again when we return.  After this snorkel we headed to Yardie Creek (91kms from town) where along the way we saw a wedge tailed eagle sitting on top of bush near the road.  We jumped out to take photos and it flew off and gave us a magnificent display of its size, it was huge.  It was very windy at Yardie Creek but we still opted to kayak in the gorge.  It was lovely, we saw four black footed wallabies (one with joey) and as they are rare this was very special.  Its amazing how they can climb around the sheer rock faces!  The water was extremely salty which surprised us and in parts mangroves were clinging along the edge.  It was a pleasant easy kayak heading into the gorge but a different story coming back straight into strong headwinds - we were exhausted by the time we got back.  The on the way home we saw an echidna crossing the road in front of us - its bizarre becuase the last time we were here (about 4 years ago) the same thing happened.  We jumped out of the car again with camera in tow and John took the video below.  Very lucky I think to see an echinda.  What a day!