Monkey Mia







































Another long travel day and we’ve reached Monkey Mia. Cold and windy but our beach front site the best! Quick dinner with an ocean view before indoors for the night. We spotted an echidna walked right across the front of our campsite through the dunes and moths the size of small birds! Emus are here too looking for tasty treats.


Next morning we had beanies and trackies on before walking from our campsite down the beach for the dolphin feeding. Starting from 7.45am hundreds of people standing on the beach listening to a parks and wildlife ranger talk about the dolphins.


Dolphin feeding is a very serious operation now. The beach near the jetty is cordoned off with no one even allowed to sit on the sand during ‘dolphin interaction time’. At points you can step into the water up to your ankles but this is also monitored throughout and if the dolphins come close they tell you to get out of the water. Saying all that it was lovely seeing the beautiful dolphins up close.


We saw a couple the first interaction and the second interaction about twenty minutes later we saw a few more. Only 2 of the dolphins (sisters in their 20s) are allowed to be fed 3 fish by parks volunteers that get called down by radio with buckets right at the end of the ‘interaction’.


As it is still school holidays the boys did a craft session and we had a ride around camp. Too cold and windy to swim (even though Tyler was as keen as a bean!)


Another cold windy day. A morning walk on the beach then a visit to Ocean Park Aquarium. It was interesting to learn more about some of the fish we have been seeing in the wild.  On the way back to Monkey Mia a stop in at the playground and visitor centre of Denham.


Pools still too freezing to enjoy but one of the pool areas had a spa sized pool of artesian fed bore water-stinky and stained our bathers but warm at least!


After that a spot of sunset fishing on the beach-didn’t catch anything but the boys are getting good at casting.



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