broom broome...

So we enjoyed a few days in broome before heading on. We watched the sunset at cable beach a few times which was lovely and even enjoyed some fish and chips. The caravan park we stayed at showed films in the evening under the stars so it was really nice to kick back and relax for a while. After Broome we headed towards exmouth to visit the ningaloo reef. It was another long drive (about 1500kms) but we managed to do it in two days.

To try and give everyone an idea of how big this place really is, here are a couple of photos of the scenery on the drive.



8.15 am



1.30 pm

This is pretty much all we see for about seven hours each day. Every now and again we come to a road house, which is just a petrol station, if your lucky a caravan park, and normally the most miserable petrol station employees you'll ever meet. And no Tina, sorry there is no other road that we can take to make it a bit more interesting, its a case of one way there, and one way back!

Due to the remoteness of everything, some of the roads even double up as airstrips!



Anyway, after the drive we arrived in Exmouth and spent three nights staying in the national park and snorkelling everyday, we got a great little campsite just near the beach where we were able to put up our new hammock, walk to the beach, have a swim and then relax in the hammock again, it's really been a hard life!

The snorkelling on the reef was amazing, much better than wehat we saw on the great barrier reef, just swimming off the beach we saw sharks, turtles, big stingrays, sea snakes, red fire fish, a cod about 1.5 meters long, a couple of octopus and loads of hugh fish. We also got a chance to see the full moon rising (or the starcase to the moon as the locals call it) which looked amazing as a blood red moon rose over the sea lighting up the ripples of the ocean.



After Exmouth we drove to coral bay, another snorkelling spot, but decided after all this time looking at the fish, we had better eat some. We bought a box of 15 fish fingers (we couldn't afford the fresh stuff) and munched through them in one go (with some rice for vitamins!). All this swimming is hard work, so we needed to top up our energy levels.