They come to the shore every morning about 3 times and a few people in the crowd get picked to feed one of them some fish. Just amazing to be able to see them so close. Nina was one of the lucky ones to be picked on our last day!
I did a 3 hour cruise on a catamaran (without the kids) and we were lucky as we saw some sharks, a sea snake and some dugongs in the grass bank area. Dugongs are herbivorous marine mammals and Shark Bay is supposed to be the biggest habitat with about 10.000 Dugongs.
Manfred did the same trip on the next day.
We had lunch in Denham then the girls had a play on the playground by the beach. The weather was great so the colour of the water was beautiful.
We spent a bit of time in the Francois Peron national park; We visited the old sheep shearing homestead with a friend of Nina and her dad: the 3 girls had lot's of fun! We even had a dip in the warm water tub close to it (tub that has been a popular swimming spot for years). It was like being in a big warm spa bath!
We drove to Skip Jack point still in the Francois Peron park: there are 2 big stunning lookout where you can spot rays, manta or dugongs if you are lucky. The coastlines colours are amazing: turquoise water with red cliffs.
The morning we left Monkey Mia we visited Ocean World. The feeding of the sharks was impressive.
We saw a stone fish for the first time: they really do look like a stone and it is very poisonous if you step on them!
On our way out of Monkey Mia, we stopped at the beautiful shell beach. Imagine millions of tiny shells under your feet!
We then drove direction Hamelin pool to see the stromatolites, the oldest living organisms on the planet.
The water at Hamelin bay is twice as saline as usual sea water. Stromatolites are composed of bacteria and algae.
That night we stayed at a nice caravan park next to an old homestead. I had a look at the homestead with the girls and we tried to get close to the sheep so they were happy.
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