Day 15-19 Coral Bay

The drive to Coral Bay was pleasant. We stopped off at Minilya Station roadhouse and had lunch by the river. It was dry but the setting was nice.

We had sunshine through to Coral Bay however the clouds loomed. At Coral Bay the first night we had a fantastic sunset as you can see from the pictures below. During the night however it poured. Thank god we were in a van. Those in tents had a few problems. The water drained away very quick which was good.

We ran in Dave and Loris here so we caught up with them. They are here with a group of about 15 people. They are heading up to Yardie Creek which is another 80kms or so further north. Coral bay is quite a small place. It is quite lovely. It is well regarded for snorkelling and fishing. A fishing charter group had come in on the Saturday afternoon and that had heaps of beautiful fish. Boy it would have been nice to have one of them for dinner.

We haven’t done much here which suits this place. We went out on a glass bottomed boat over the coral and that was fantastic. The coral here is “hard” coral. It is not the really colourful coral that you see on the TV but still very pretty with majestic pieces of coral. These cabbage-like coral are over a metre in width. There were lots of fish around. It was very windy, cold and choppy out on the boat. Anne went for a snorkel and really enjoyed it.
We had a call from Laura today (Wednesday) saying that she had seen Anne on Getaway in the markets in Carnarvon. That was pretty amazing as we were only there on the previous Saturday and it was shown on the Wednesday.