We all got back on to the Easy Rider bus and headed towards our next stop in Denham. On the way we stopped of to see the Stromatolites... Which are apparently the source of all life on earth... We imagined that this was going to be very impressive... But they weren't! Aisling summed it up at one point after we'd been walking round for a while by saying "what are we looking for here?"! It turned out that it was the rocks that were just on the shore line, but they just looked like any old rock that you'd see anywhere!!! So we'd recormend it to anyone... Well worth a vist! Not!

When we arrived at Denham we checked into our hostel and headed to the pub for dinner and then back to the hostel for drinks to say good bye to Klaus and Aisling, as they were moving on the next day with Easy Rider, and we were staying for a few days.

The next day we went for a walk round Denham - which took all of 5 minutes!!! It was a really small town with 2 pubs and 2 supermarkets and thats pretty much about it! Later that day we meet our old Easy rider bus driver Darren - he offered us a lift to Monkey Mia the next day to see the Dolphins! The dolpins are wild - but they come to the shore every morning to be fed by the National Park people, which obviously brings in the tourists! They only feed them a small amount and only for a few hours in the mornings so that the dolphins don't become dependant on the fish that they provide. They feed each dolphin 2kgs of fish per day (they eat between 8 & 10kgs a day) so they still go off and hunt fish themselves. They only feed the adult females that come to the shore (I can't remember why), they swim up very close to the tourists (see pictures), I guess they want to see us as much as we want to see them! We were at Monkey Mia for a few hours then Darren took us back to Denham.

Later that day the lady that run the hostel asked us if we would like to go to the hot springs that evening. So we were picked up by a English guy (Pete) at 9 in the evening and he took us to the natural hot springs. The water was really hot (I bet you didn't see that coming!), and we sat there looking up at the stars... We saw loads of shooting stars and apparently you can see the milky way really clearly form there, alas we didn't! But it was really lovely, until we had to get out it was bloody freezing, and pitch black and I was convionced we were going to get bitten by spiders! Anyway, I'd got chatting to Pete (he must of seen me coming), and he convinced me (and Sarah) to go and work with him on his Pearl Farm the next day.

So up we get the next day to go to work on the Pearl Farm. We get a lift out to the pearl farm out at sea on a little boat. Our job was to clean the oysters and make these basket things where they lived. Very glamorous! We soon realised that we were just slave labour! But it was good fun, we got a free tour of the farm when the big tourist boats came on board and they paid us in pearls! We also helped them tie the oysters on the lines out at sea, they did show us the proper knot used to tie them on - but we were really crap at it, and I have a very funny feeling that if a few big waves come along over the next few years - the ones we tied on will be at the bottom of the sea.. Oopps!

Following day we got back on to the Easy rider bus to go to Kalbarri.....