CORAL BAY

Well, Coral Bay surprised us, not so much it being empty but that we actually for once sat still for almost 48 hours! It’s in our nature (well, mine anyway) to keep moving, doing stuff, and always looking for something to do. So with nothing happening, we actually wound down, slowed down. And thoroughly enjoyed it.

Even more surprising is that we dragged out our snorkel masks and spent an hour or so drifting around having a look at the reef and the wee little fishies….. and some not so little fishes.

We aren’t really snorkellers, but we thought we’d give it  a go. We have those full face masks with built-in snorkels that make it easier and more comfortable.

Only going in from the beach we didn’t get the large colourful corals, but more muted and seemingly dull. The fishes more than made up for it, neon colours, fluorescent translucent stripes, shiny scales that changed colour in the sunlight.

I don’t have an underwater camera, so, you will just have to take our word, and not being fishermen, I couldn’t tell you the types, except for Jo saying she saw a yellow and black “nemo” type fish. Even better, we didn’t even see a single blowie

Even if we hadn’t gone snorkelling, we came across several blue spotted rays lazing around in the shallows as we waded in and out, and they didn’t seem to be stressed by us stopping by.

All up, we really enjoyed our float,  well worth the little bit of sunburn where we missed with the sunscreen,

The afternoon was spent in the shade lazing around, reading, writing, and thencretreating into the cool for a couple of cool beverages and a movie.

But now we’re on the road again, 600km on to Karratha, and are keeping an eye out on that tropical low off the coast.

We were heading out to Millstream NP but doubt it now with the weather. We might just hole up in Karratha or Port Hedland until the “cyclone” wears itself  out.