Coral Bay

15^th –17^th September

Coral Bay is a busy little holiday town. It has a very beautiful beach that seems particularly suited to young families with its very safe, shallow, warm water

and is so accessible, being just over the road from the caravan parks and other accommodation.

Fish were fed in the shallows each afternoon, much to the delight of the children. Big North West Snapper came right up to their feet.

 

We felt it didn’t have the magic of Ningaloo at Cape Range N.P. and we didn’t find the snorkelling as good….but it was interesting.  

On our walks along the beach we saw several washed up nudibranchs, which were fantastic.

With the first two, we could see the external gills and little tentacles...the shoe shows its size.

This one was alive in a pool of water

  

 

But couldn't see the features well on the next ones

 

 

 

Maybe this one is upside down? 

 

 

 

and not sure whether this is a nudibranch ..will just have to Google it!

 

 

There were lots of beautiful terns here – Caspian, Crested, Lesser Crested, Roseate, Common and Fairy Terns, plus a few others that Rob was unable to identify.

This is the Common Tern – not very common in Australia. It is a summer visitor from the northern hemisphere, arriving in September and departing in April.

Rob tried fishing one morning, without success,  but hopes Carnarvon might be more suitable.