The next morning we set off to explore the National park at the top of the peninsula. What an amazing and unspoilt place. Our first stop was an old sheep station where we could walk through the well-kept shearing shed and quarters. Ben's dramatisation of the cycle of the shearing was priceless! Then we had a quick look at Big Lagoon. Driving out of there we were amazed to find a thorny devil on the track! It is so rare to see one in the wild as they are so well c...

We arrived in Shark Bay and set up in Denham at the Blue Dolphin caravan park and had a nice sunny afternoon to explore the small, pretty town but woke the next morning to grey skies and a bit of light rain. We headed off early to Monkey Mia for the dolphin interaction anyway. Unfortunately we weren't the only ones! There must have been about 100 people! So we didn't see too much the first time. However, more than half of those people left while we stayed for the...

We packed quite a bit into our 2 and a half days in Carnarvon. We enjoyed the fresh and sometimes organic delights of Carnarvon's "fruit bowl", fruit and veges from all the local farms, we walked out along the historic 1 mile pier, snorkelled at the "aquarium" at Point Quobba, watched the blow hole blow and played at the huge park on the foreshore. It was a fun and busy couple of days.

Our five days at the stunning Coral Bay were a fun mix of snorkelling and 4WDing, reading, fishing and playing on the beach. The weather was also a mixed bag of wind and cloud and sun. We had some beautiful snorkelling swims and quite a few exciting 4WDing adventures in the sand dunes. No luck fishing but we all finished reading a book! It was also lovely to catch up again with friends the Schofields, for an evening. Off to Carnavon for the next few days for a ch...

We have spent the last four days on the Ningaloo reef at Osprey Bay in the Cape Range National park. A beautiful camp ground in a spectacular part of the country with white sandy beaches and clear blue water and reef all the way along, a haven for marine life. We spent the four days snorkelling, just strolling off the beach onto the reef, seeing an amazing array of marine life including spectacularly coloured tropical fish, turtles, spotted rays, schools of large...