Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Broome

 
Today we went camel riding these two camels are Zara the one in the first and Rodney in the back.  Mum and I rode Zara and Dad and Jess rode Rodney.We got the front two camels. It was amazing and it was really relaxing and I could have rode them forever.
 
 
 
 
 
 
This is us on our two camels,the sunset was great and the camel were so peaceful and relax.  And at the end we even got to feed them a carrot. I was too scared to feed the carrot to Zara, so Jess had to.

 Before the camel riding though, we went on a Pearl luggers tour-- which was very interesting-- and we went to the Broome Museum, which was quant. We had the best chilli crab and barramundi ever for dinner. A fun fun day!!
 
 
 
 


Monday, 7 July 2014

Eighty Mile Beach


Today we drove to 80 mile beach, first Jess and I went down to the beach and felt the water. It felt nice then, we went for a walk on the beach and found lots of shells. We got attacked by “killer” fish—they were out to get us, just because we were swimming in winter!!

 
Jess and I swimming

This is down at the beach at sunset it was very big and bright and was right on the water. It was nice and hot today, I think it got to around 25-29 degrees Celsius (in the middle of winter!!!)   



Karijini


Today, we went lots of gorges. This is the first one, it was really fun clambering all over the rocks and water. We got to do spider walking on walls and walking through water and climbing down and up rocks on one of them.
Joffre Falls

 
This is the spider walk we had to have one foot on one side and the other side and at the end there was a pool that you could swim in.
Hancock Gorge

This is one of the many water falls we had to climb down rock and cross rivers to get to it.
                                                              
Forescue Falls
 
We had heaps of fun today adventuring the Gorges and what the beautiful sights they showed us. They were magical (as Mum would put it)!!!

Exmouth



Today we went swimming with Whale sharks, Whale sharks are the biggest fish of the sea and they are the very gentle. This is Dad, Jess, Mum and I on the boat going out.

 

This is me snorkelling before we went swimming with the whale sharks. It was amazing all the fish and the coral.

 

 
This was how far out we were when we went in the water. The first time we went in I was a bit scared but when we got in it was amazing.



The whale shark tour was amazing, we learnt so much. We learnt things such as; the whale sharks that visit the Ningaloo reef are only juvenile males, meaning they only reach around 10-12m. A full grow whale shark can grow up to 18-20m and can live (estimation) from around 80-170 years old.

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

Minilya

 
 
 

MADS AND I GOT TO FEED THE DOLPHINS!!! We woke up early to go to the first encounter with the dolphins, there would have been over a hundred people there. The dolphins came so close to you e.g. within 2 metres distance. They were so curious and tame and so graceful and calm, you really just wanted to pat it however, you couldn't pat them. We didn't get chosen to feed the dolphins on this encounter. However...
This is Nicky. She is the oldest dolphin of 38 years old, and has lost 7 of her 9 babies due to undernourishment.


We were soo cold from the water that we got hot chocolates! Yum!!
 
 
On the second encounter, Mads and I were THE CHOSEN ONES and got to feed the dolphins!!!! Yay, yay, yay,yay!! *happy dancing* We got to feed Puck, they think Puck is having a baby. Nicky was back and Puck was babysitting icky's baby, Missel.
 
Mads feeding Puck

Me feeding Puck


After we got to feed the dolphins we left Monkey Mia and had a look at the shell block buildings in Denham. We also went to Shark Bay which -sadly- had no sharks in it! :(


We went to Shell beach. A beach made out of all shells!! It was really cool!! We aslo saw stromlatites (not very good). And Carnarvon, where it is summer everyday of te year!! (not too sure about that fact so don't quote me!!)

Monkey Mia

We drove from our rest stop (which was 200km south of Denham) to Denham and Monkey Mia.
We first stopped a Denham and had a quick look around town. After Denham we went to Monkey Mia!!!

Monkey Mia is really pretty and an absolutely amazing natural wonder. It is fair to say that I see why it was made a World Heritage Site. It definitely needs to be preserved for future generations!!

As we were going on a walk along the beach we saw some dolphins frolicking in the water and putting on quite a show!!
 
 
On the second walk we did not only did we see dolphins, but we also saw a sting ray with a bite out of him, pelcans and other birds and A SHARK!!!!! It was really cool because a first we thought the shark was a dolphin but later on we relised that it wasn't a dolphin it was in fact a shark!!
The dead sting ray
 
We went out for dinner tonight and the view for the resturant was gorguous!!

Monkey Mia at sunset

 
Kalbarri

We left Geraldton this morning to go to Kalbarri National Park. We did lots of driving today, however we get to stop and do some wonderful walks.

We saw the Grandstand and (another) Natural Bridge.
The Natural Bridge

The Grandsand
 
 
We went on some walks and saw "Nature's window", a valley in the shape of a 'z' and lots of zebra rock. The walks were fun and we got to see he wonders of nature from thousands of years of weatherinng and erosion.
Nature's window

Us exploring the rocks at the "z" shaped valley