Turn off to Shark Bay. This is for mapping purposes only.

We arrived in Carnarvon this afternoon. We only plan to stay here for one night and continue further south to Monkey Mia tomorrow. Western Australia has amazed me with the amount of desert there is, I think the whole state is a massive desert! We really didn't expect this, maybe we are being naive but it really is much different to what we expected, less beautiful in general but has little gems scattered down the coast, that are spectacular. Actually another odd ...

We left Exmouth this morning and drove a couple of hours south to Coral Bay. Coral Bay is a beautiful little holiday village. Once you've set up camp you can walk to everything and the beach is spectacular and very safe for little ones to swim. Coral Bay has the southern end of Ningaloo Reef and again it is very close to shore with some of the best snorkelling easily accessible any time of the day. Lochie had a swim here for about an hour and then we travelled fu...

We intended to leave today but it was very windy and we felt like a rest day after all our hard work ;), so we booked in to stay in Exmouth another night. We really like the feel of Exmouth and the Big4 park is very pleasant to stay in! This evening we decided to drive up to the Turtle Observatory, which is a beach where three different species of sea turtles come up on the beach to lay their eggs between October and January. We stayed on the beach for an hour i...

Today we drove about an hour around the peninsula to Turquoise Bay at Ningaloo Reef. Wow what an awesome place, the water here is crystal clear and really beautiful! We had hired a boogie board with a sight glass moulded in the front for Lochie and we hired goggles, snorkels and flippers for ourselves. Now Kellie and I are a bit chicken when it comes to snorkelling in the ocean, well there's sharks in there! The great thing is, is that Ningaloo Reef is only a few...