DAY 29 – MORE OF EXMOUTH

This is a photo of Exmouth’s busiest beach, Turquoise Beach where we snorkelled this afternoon. What the photo doesn’t show well are the dark patches under the water where the coral is. Again, brilliant snorkelling just off the beach.

We had a leisurely start to the day and met Chelsea, her husband Dallas, and their two daughters for coffee at 9:00. Chelsea is an environmental scientist who assists Lady Elliot with its environmental obligations. She now works here for the WA Department of Environment and Conservation. They were able to give us a local perspective on living in Exmouth.

We then headed for Yardie’s Creek, the only creek in Cape Range National Park with water in it. The water only extends for a distance of one kilometre from the mouth which only opens to the sea in extreme weather events but it has surprising amount of water in it and well worth a look.

Surprise, surprise, it rained. They say that the sun shines here 320 days per year and to be fair, the sun did shine for most of today but we awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of thunder and rain and we had a few follow up showers today. That lovely red dirt turns to lovely red mud.

Tomorrow morning, I am doing the Navy Pier dive, allegedly one of the ten best dive sites in the world so it must be pretty special. 

The locals are very relaxed as the photos below show.