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| Our Granddaughter Alexa in her Kimberly Turtles shirt |
We stopped at Hamelin to see the stromatolites. These are colonies of micro-organisms meant to be about 3000 years old. The water here is very salty and no other life is found in the water.
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| Coquina Shell bricks |
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| Stromatolite jetty |
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| Stromatolite |
There is an old Telegraph Station here as well with buildings dating back to the 1880’s.
There is also a shell quarry. The coquina shell has hardened and many old buildings in this area are made from blocks of this. The ground at the caravan park is made from shells. We arrived at Denham in the afternoon and set up camp.
Distance travelled today 342 kms
Total distance travelled 11845 km
Day 76 Wednesday 29th June
The weather has improved today and we have sunshine. We drove out to Monkey Mia and saw some dolphins swimming around at about 11.00 but they didn’t feed them as they weren’t the right ones. They only have 5 feeding dolphins. Apparently the males were getting too aggressive and some dolphins were relying on this food instead of foraging for themselves.
We drove back via Little Lagoon and the lookout. There are a number of tracks going off to the water and these are good areas for fishing, especially whiting.
After lunch we went to the Ocean Park Aquarium. This was excellent. Some young rangers provided a guided tour of the aquarium where they had sharks, fish, squid and a loggerhead turtle.
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| Little Lagoon |
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| Shark Bay |
Day 77 Thursday 30th June
This morning we woke very early and left here at 7.00 to get to Monkey Mia to watch the dolphins. Unfortunately the weather was not as good with very overcast skies.
The dolphins came in very close to us and swam up and down for about half an hour.
There were a lot of people there but we still got a good look.
Then we went fishing but it was very cold and windy and we left when a rain squall came through.
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| Sunrise at Monkey Mia |
