We have been meaning to get these pictures of our July shcool holiday trip on the web for a while. Finally getting there!
We went up to Ningaloo reef, about 1200 KM north of here and Emma came over for the trip for a couple of weeks. Actually we took about 10 days for the trip, 4 up and 2 back, not much time left at Ningaloo!
It was a great trip and we saw a lot of desert country the like of which we haven't seen before.
Ningaloo Reef itself is a 250 km stretch of fringing reef that is part of a marine park. It has just been enlarged and had more areas protected. It looks like I will also be doing a fair bit of work up there.
We really wished we had had more time to spend up there, it was a great trip.
Ningaloo Trip
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rusty
Ningaloo Trip
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- So we finally made it to Ningaloo, this is the view from the lighthouse at Northwest Cape, the reef in the background to the west. to the east is the US submarine ultra low frequency communication facility. It has a bunch of towers there, one of which i
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- North of Quobba is a place called Red Bluff which is one of the worlds top surf spots. I have wanted to surf there for about 20 years, and we managed to do that so I was pretty stoked. Got some smoking barrels, which I never made it out of but was happy
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- The next day we got to a place called Quobba station. It is a sheep station but now has a lot of people passing thru so subsists a lot on camping fees. There is good surfing and fishing from the coast there. The station itself is the campground and al
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- I was going to get the girls to try some noodling, but I had noticed from previous posts that, as with dogs and their owners, noodlers and their prey begin to resemble each other far too closely. So I decided against it.
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- We tried the fishin but didn't have any luck.
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- We took two days to get up to shark bay, where we found this place to camp (the goal was to avoid paying camping fees) by the shore. Very deserted and fortunately no westerly wind.
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rusty
Ningaloo II
The trip continued.....
too much to get into one post, especially on dial up.
As I was saying, the tower is taller than the empire state bldg
too much to get into one post, especially on dial up.
As I was saying, the tower is taller than the empire state bldg
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- Emma got the best fish, we had a sashimi gorge-out
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- A combination of salt, sweat and water so hard there were stalagtites in the toilet bowl made it a hair raising experience. Nice to get that spiked look without expensive products.
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- There were some really cool anthills around the place
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- WE had a couple of nice days on the boat, one in particular was good and we say heaps of whales, dolphins turtles, mantas and sharks.
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- WE got a few of these barracuda on th first day, only kept two for eating. Surprisingly good! We let a lot go, even had a triple hook up which was pretty exciting
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- the weather got windy and rainy for a couple of days so we did some hiking. This is Yardie Ck gorge, which is actually a salt water inlet
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