Hello everyone!
Tuesday after coming back from Kalbarri National Park we stayed somewhere on the NW Coastal Highway at a kind of picnic area. That night was particularly cold., I was woken by the cold several times. Such a bad night there 🙁
The next day we were supposed to reach Monkey Mia by the afternoon but the bus broke down and we had to spend the whole day by the road (still the NW Coastal Highway) waiting for the spare bus. Jake’s friend who was running the other bus arrived around 10 pm and we had to stay overnight, our third day waiting around since the beginning of the trip.
The following day we hit the road to Monkey mia around midday. We stopped in Denham, the first city on the road, to buy some food for the next 3 days. Earlier we decided to stay for 3 days in a famous resort called Monkey mia. It’s a reserve located 25 km northeast of Denham in the Shark Bay Marine Park.
It was nice to get some humanity back after 1 week without showers, and the place was lovely. You can observe lots of wild emus all around the camp and dolphins jumping in the bay. In fact, the bottlenose dolphins have been coming close to shore for more than fifty years. Rangers from the Department of Parks and Wildlife carefully supervise the Monkey Mia Dolphin Experience.
The first day we sailed out on Jake’s friend’s boat at sunset and stayed there for dusk, sharing some drinks with the crew. The next day some of us woke up a bit earlier than usual to see the first feeding of the dolphins around 8 am. The rest of the day we enjoyed the beach, the hot tub and the sun.
On Saturday we decided to rent sea kayaks to explore the shore. Unfortunately that day it was raining during our little excursion but it was fun anyway 😉 At dawn we all met together around the fire on the beach. It was pretty festive that night as it was Canada day and Julie, a fellow traveler, is from Ottawa.
On Sunday we were supposed to book activities and accommodation for the next few days but Jake by his lack of organisation (school holidays, end of the season the see the whales shark in Coral bay) screwed the trip up. Since the beginning of the trip some things hadn’t been sorted out the way it should have been. We had to wait around the first two days, the bus broke down on the middle of nowhere and finally Jake announced us that we will have to wait 5 more days on a free camp waiting for availabilities in Coral bay (next big stop).
Since then, with 8 people from the bus we decided to take our own way and leave the bus on Monday. Emily has a way with organisation and made calls to sort out everything for the next week. So basically we leave tomorrow at 8am with a hop on hop off bus to Coral bay. We’ll stay 2 nights in a campsite and 3 nights in a backpack there. We will next take the bus on Monday morning to Exmouth and get on the whale shark tour on Tuesday together.
I hope you are all fine! See you soon for another post!
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