We’ve had a great 3 days here in Coral Bay, we will be sorry to leave it. No doubts the town exists as a pure tourist destination, there was no other “work” that we could see, so the C19 issue has hit the place hard. Fortunately its starting to come back but the tourist operators are really missing the international visitor’s as they are the ones that frequent all the diving, snorkeling and fishing trips. The WA locals have all done these activities before hand so the trips have vastly reduced numbers. Our trip today for snorkeling and Coral viewing only had the 4 of us, our guides said they are normally full every trip this time of the year. They are all hoping for a big school holiday fortnight in July, both Caravan Parks are booked solid for the 2 weeks so that’s over 500 sites.

We did a bit of beach 4 wheel driving yesterday out to 5 Finger Reef beach and had a swim and snorkeled a little bit as practice for today. Stayed for awhile and had drinks on the beach waiting for the sun to set over the water, which proved to be well worth while.

Today was out on a glass bottom boat to view the Ningaloo Reef and also snorkel. The Ningaloo reef is different to the Great Barrier Reef, as in the coral is not as colourful as the GBR, mainly due to the cooler temperature of the water here compared to the GBR.

The snorkeling was great, I managed to snorkel with the fish (after the guides threw barley all around me) and it was very speccy! Had my fingers nibbled on a few times but it was a superb experience. The sea was a bit rough at the first dive spot but the second was much calmer and enjoyable. The views of the coral thru the bottom of the boat were also good but unfortunately the photos don’t match the excitement we had when taking the shots. As I said Coral Bay was great, we are sorry to leave.

Tomorrow we are going to Bullaro Station Stay, it should be an interesting couple of days. We intend to drive up to Exmouth on Thursday to check out the place. So until my next post, stay safe guys!