3 - 4 August 2016 - Days 123 - 124 - Denham/Monkey Mia

We set off at 8am and couldn't help ourselves and we drove back into Coral Bay and went to the Bakery for a sneaky pie and a cake.  It was delicious!!

Quobba was our next stop and we had planned on staying at Quobba Station on the coast but as the wind was still howling we stopped off at the blowholes and watched the show.  It was very impressive. Then we decided that we would just keep driving until Michael had had enough.

On the way into Denham we stopped to look at Hamelin Pool which has stromatolites and is one of only a few sites in the world that have them.  It was the eeriest place we have been too as there was no one else around and it was dead silent and still on the water.

It got to 5pm and we were on the road into Denham but wouldn't arrive before any caravan parks  closed so we decided to find a nice spot on the side of the road.  Some days you can drive and you will pass 10 free camps in a short space of time and then you drive for hours and see none.  Well this happened to us so we just kept driving and then we saw a picture opportunity bay on the side of the road overlooking a lovely bay in the National Park so we pulled in.  By this time the sun was going down so we had a quick walk out to the point and a quick drink and then all hopped into bed and watched a DVD.

It had been a big day in the car.

The next morning we got up and left at 6.30am to drive into Monkey Mia to be there for the first dolphin feeding at 7.45am.  We made it with a little bit of time to spare.  It was the biggest crowd that they had had for a long time with 216 people in the crowd and 5 dolphins turned up for the feeding.  The Ranger was explaining how not everyone can be picked to feed the dolphins and only 10 people would be.  It was the boys lucky day and they got picked.  You can't touch the dolphins anymore so to be able to feed one was great.

We then drove back into Denham and dropped the caravan off at the caravan park and drove to Cape Peron.  It was a 4x4 track and very sandy in places.  The view from Skipjack Point into Shark Bay was impressive.  You could see manta ray's, turtles and shovelhead sharks everywhere.  We could have stayed there for hours and just watched the water below.

It was back to the caravan to cook sheppard's pie for dinner and the kids jumped on the jumping pillow.