Heaven is the Ningaloo Reef

It’s day 4 in Coral Bay and we are about to go fishing again. Yesterday we caught lots of fish, but I caught the only 2 we could bring home and eat for our lunch (a yellow finned emperor and a snub nosed trevally). I can see us staying on an extra day or two as the weather is wonderful and Russ hasn’t actually managed to get time to snorkel over the reef yet. If we travel slowly too, we might manage to meet some friends from Warrnambool in Exmouth if they decide it’s worth the drive (to swim with the whale sharks).

The night before last, a couple of young girls camping near us woke the whole park going for rides with a couple of staff on one of the quad bikes they all ride around here. After we’d fished, I went into the office to make a complaint (it really was very annoying at 2 am) and who should be booking in but Fred and Robyn Hughson (and yes Mick, they remember you shopping with Isaac and Isaac!). They only stayed the night, but came over and spent an hour or so chatting with us last night.

Yesterday we had a quite large gecko by our front door for a few hours. He was catching flies and at one stage ran right over my foot to do it. It was funny but even funnier when he ran full speed about 5 metres and ran up the leg of the 6 y.o next door. He jumped higher and shrieked louder than me!

Today we had a big day out fishing in our little boat. We caught heaps of fish (maybe 50) that we threw back, only a few we kept for dinner tomorrow. As it turns out, we could have kept many Charlie Court Cod we caught to give us another couple of feeds. We thought they were undersized, but there is no size and ours were pretty good.


I feel like I’ve died and gone to heaven here. It’s warm (28 to 30c)with no humidity through the day, the nights are a bit cooler and it is so laid back and relaxed. Tomorrow we are going snorkeling, then on a sunset cruise on a local sail boat.