So the plan is to get up early and ring
Coral Bay at 7.30am to snare one of the 6 spots that don’t get prebooked. Up we get, pack up, ready to roll….no reception! We drive for an hour and a half to the
turnoff…left to Coral Bay, right to Exmouth and still we are unable to make a
phone call.
We decided to head to Exmouth, given it was
bigger and the council had opened up an overflow around the showground so worst
case scenario we could camp there.
About 15 kms up the road we snare a single bar f coverage and after 3
U-turns trying to find the spot again we ring Coral Bay and as luck would have
it snae a spot for the next 4 nights.
So in Coral Bay we find ourselves, mid
morning and the most gorgeous turquoise coloured water in front of us….home for
a few days and as it would turn out definitely a highlight.
The beauty of this place is you literally
put on the snorkel and mask and walk off the beach and are swimming in amongst
hundreds of fish and coral. It is a
protected marine park and so no fishing is allowed. The reef finishes about a km offshore where the
breakers are and we got to experience the thrill of the underwater world on a
glass bottom boat where we snorkeled in two spots, including hanging out with a
turtle for a bit, a drift snorkel from around the point where the current
brings you back in to the bay and just off the beach itself. He water was cold after you had been in a
while but the experience was awesome.
Alex and Lachie both had a go, and while
Lachie’s snorkeling effort resulted in more of a comedy act as he enjoyed
tripping over his flippers and walking
around the sand with his mask and snorkel, Alex got the hang of it and stayed
out with us for ages, experiencing another world.
From Coral Bay we snared a site for 2
nights in Exmouth. It turns out there is
not much to do in Exmouth other than drive around the tip of the Cape and down
through the Cape National Park, which while beautiful we didn’t find a spot as
nice as Coral Bay. We did spend the day
at Turquoise Bay with more snorkeling and a walk along the beach that was nice
but me thinks we were totally spoiled by Coral Bay.
Exmouth in hindsight was a bit of a
calamity. We arrived to be told we were
on a double slab site…making it quite difficult to peg down the tent in the
concrete. I got totally confused at
which way our tent went and we proceeded to turn the trailer around in circles,
doing donuts if you like on the concrete pad, all the time pushing the trailer
as I had un hitched it…turns out the right position was where I had backed it
in the first time. And then finally a
bigger kid pushed Alex into the fence in the playground. He bounced and he and Lachie collided heads
leaving Alex with a black eye and what we feared was a cracked tooth as he was
feeling the cold every time he breathed and drunk.
Now for a real Exmouth highlight. We did have fresh prawns from the best
seafood shop in the world. Spend $30,
get $10 off and he split our spend over two days letting us walk out with $25
of fresh king prawns for dinner night one and $15 of green prawns for a curry
on night two…how good is that, good old fashioned service, cheap, great quality
and we ate prawns two nights running…gotta love that!
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