Day 68: Exmouth to Coral Bay

Had a good couple of days in Exmouth - it is a really unique place with the reef so close to the shore. In retrospect, we could easily have spent a week there as there were quite a few places we didn't get to see. Can't see everything - ownlo on leave 22 weeks altogether!

Anyway, today we drove the 155km from Exmouth to Coral Bay. Not a bad drive but we did come across locusts swarming in a few areas - had to slow right down so the van & car weren't covered in dead insects!!!

When we arrived at Coral Bay, we went to the first caravan park but there were no vacancies. Went to the second park and they could give us a powered site for tonight and possibly powered on a different site for the next two days or definitely non-powered. As a result, we have now booked our accommodation for the next two weeks as we move closer to the south-west corner.

Coral Bay is a small village catering for people who enjoy fishing, snorkling and relaxing - similar to Exmouth. Again, Ningaloo Reef is right there off the beach and you can snorkle on the reef off the main beach in the town. Lorelle and I hired goggles, snorkles, etc today and we spent a couple of houers this afternoon snorkling. The coral was not that colourful but the fish life was great. Tomorrow we will snorkle in a different location where hopefully there is better coral.