Coral Bay WA

Today, Friday 1/10/2010 is our last full day at this beautiful location. It is school holidays in WA and we are half way through them. We managed to get two weeks here even with one of these weeks being school vacation. It is a bit like winning the lottery as families swarm here and have annual holidays here for years. Also there are a bunch of AFS Interculteral Exchange students on Safari here as well. I had a chat with them and they were very impressed that I knew all about the program. Ther is about 30 doing travelling for 16 days from Perth to the national Park about 150 km away. They sleep under a big tarp at night time and all the girls hog the bathroom to make themselve beautiful every morning. Funny what 16 year olds are like....Memories.....

Tomorrow 2/10/2010 we move on to Canarvon.

Back to the old entry of Coral Bay posted 2 weeks ago..........

After happily leaving Karratha behind, we drove for several hours south to a beautiful peace of heaven called Coral Bay.

Me on my noodle bobbing around

The Ningaloo Reef is swimming distance here and the coral and fish are well worth getting wet for. The town is very small, just a few houses, but there is a very good backpackers accommodation and two huge caravan parks here just accross from the water. There are two grocery shops and half a dozen other shops as well as a hotel motel, all accross the road from the beach.

Coral Bay the best place to swim in WA

The WA Snapper are plentiful here and they are about half a metre long. They swim next to you and rub against you. They know this is a marine park and they are safe. They are little teasers.

WA Snapper teasing me

The water is fantastic to swim in as it is so clear. This is the first place we have actually swum in the Indian Ocean. we've always been a bit worried about stingers, crocs and sharks..... After leaving Cable Beach, Broome, the beach was closed due to a large salt water croc moving in. Barn Hill also had a 3 metre white pointer shark scene cruising around. Coral Bay seems to be very safe as there are little children swimming everywhere. We purchased a swimming noodle each so we could swim accross the coral and not touch it. The weather is beautiful here. 34 C in the day and about 16 c as night. This is a lovely quaint town and next time we come back it will probably be like Noosa QLD. The funniest thing about this place is they have the most fantistic grass. It is a saltine couch that is conditioned to being sprayed with the artesian bore water that the town uses for washing and showering. This water comes from 830 metres deep and produces water that is 65 C. So you have very HOT SALTY water on tap. Not need to boil water to wash up, you just turn on the tap. The grass is sprayed continuously with this water as the sprayers are very fine and by the time the water is sprayed in the air it is cooler so as not to burn the grass. When your walking past these sprayers and they hit your leg with hot water, it is a bit of a shock!! There is drinking water taps supplied also though out the caravan parks. We can only stay here for 5 nights as it is WA's school holidays starting this Saturday for two weeks and the accommodation is already booked out. Shame as we would of loved to stay here for 3 weeks.

Coral Bay

Tony taking in the view of Coral Bay

View of Coral Bay Town