Day 21-23 Exmouth and Cape Range National Park

From Coral Bay we drove to Exmouth and on to Cape Range National Park. There were many beautiful beaches at Cape Range National Park, our favourite was Sandy Bay (see above). The beaches are on the lagoon protected from the ocean swell by Ningaloo Reef. It is possible to go snorkelling off the beach but we decided not to go snorkelling because we saw a 2.5m shark feeding on fish about 30 metres off shore at Turquoise bay!

We went for a couple of walks, one at Yardie Creek and one at Mandu Mandu Gorge. We saw a stingray and a turtle and a white fish in Yardie Creek. From the top of Mandu Mandu gorge, we could see all the humpback whales out past the reef. The view was so good you could even see the curvature of the Earth on the horizon.

The campsite we stayed at was called Tulki Beach. There were about 10 sites and one bush loo. At night the stars really bright and colourful and the sky was huge - very different from the city. Venus was the first star at night in the west after sunset (although it's really a planet not a star). Liv and Dad sat out after dark one night with the telescope and the camera. We could see Venus through the telescope - it was very bright. We call the photo above of our caravan and the stars: "Galaxies". You can see the Southern Cross at the top towards the right. Liv also learned how to tell which direction is south by looking at the Southern Cross.

Henry and Will: At the campsite we were on "ant patrol". Ant patrol finds and watches ants and ant holes and kills some of the big ants. We killed fire ants but rescued black ants. We sat on the wheels at the back of the caravan to get a better view of the ants.