MONKEY MIA

Thursday 9th October – Thursday 16th October

We arrived at Monkey Mia today. We are staying at the Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort. It is the only place to stay here. It is a nice caravan park; we are right on to the beach. We went for a walk along the beach.

To see the dolphins feeding you need to be up and at the jetty by 7.30 am. They are there between 7.30 and 9.00 am every morning. They have three feeding sessions. You are not allowed to touch the dolphins. You are not allowed to swim with the dolphins anymore.

You can see the dolphin in the afternoon swimming up and down. They also have pelicans here that don’t seem to be scared of humans. They will come right up to you.

We hired the paddle boats on Friday morning; it was hard work though as it was windy which made it hard to paddle.

On Saturday we went for a drive into Denham today to have a look around. It is only about half an hour drive from Monkey Mia.

Jesse really loves fishing. He has been going out to the beach to fish. Some men here have shown him how to get his own bait. They use pippies as bait which they collect from the bottom of the beach.

He went out on his own to fish today without any help and caught himself two small whiting. He was so excited. He got a man in the park to show him how to gut it etc. We ended up cooking it for dinner, it was really tasty.

Jesse has been loving fishing so much, he has been going everyday. He is even getting up before 7.00am to go fishing.

It has been nice and warm which is good. It gets windy here at night time, and gets a little cool.

He has been helping the man that runs the paddle boats here, so the man let him go on the paddle boats for free for half an hour.

Sometimes when you are in the water the dolphins will swim right past you, they are not scared at all.

Emily is also enjoying here, she has made friends also. They have a pool here with a hot tub so she has been going for lots of swims in the pool and the beach.

David and I have been going for a walk most nights. Although it is not a very nice beach to walk along as it is full of shells.

PHOTOS OF DENHAM


Where the water is dark is the deepest part for the ships to come in


MONKEY MIA
Jesse's fish he caught. You can see the beach in the background. That is how close to the water we are.

A man showing Jesse how to gut the fish

Jesse looking for pippies









Our caravan site
Emily on the paddleboats

CARNARVON

Monday 6th October to Wednesday 8th October

We left Exmouth this morning and arrived at Carnarvon. We are staying here for three days at the Wintersun Caravan Park.

They have lots of locally grown produce here so we went to one of the farms and bought some fruit and vegetables. The also make frozen icy poles like strawberries or mango covered in chocolate.

We went to the one mile jetty. It was built in 1897. It began to fall into disrepair and in 1998 the community banded together to save it. It is now listed with the state and national heritage trusts.

One Mile Jetty train ride

Exmouth

Friday 3rd October – Sunday 5th October

We are staying at Exmouth for a few days. The weather now that we are down lower is not as hot. Tonight was the first night we slept with doona’s on for a while. It has been windy everyday here with the wind picking up at night time.

There is nothing here at Exmouth except for the ocean. We still are yet to find a coast line as beautiful as the great ocean road.







This is their bike path. It says to be careful of dingoes.
We had to slow down in the car to let them pass

Tom Price

Wednesday 1st October – 2nd October

We arrived at Tom Price this afternoon after a very long drive.

That’s the thing about Western Australia it takes a long time to get from one place to the next.

The next day we went to Karijini National Park. We went to Dales Gorge and for a drive to Weano Gorge. They have quite a few gorges here but we are all gorged out at the moment. We went to the Fortescue Falls and Circular Pool. The kids did some swimming.