Coral Bay

Snorkeling at Point Quobba was a great introduction for Dunc, as Coral Bay and since then has consisted of a LOT of snorkeling. We had passed the latitude for the official "Tropic of Capricorn" and took great joy in being "in the tropics now".

The sea water seems a little cool initially (like for the first 30 seconds) but as soon as we are in and looking under the surface we don’t even notice it. And after that we are acclimatized and all is well. Coral Bay was beautiful. We didn’t even take the car out of the trailer, as it is such a teeny tiny little town we could walk everywhere. We went snorkeling in the bay every day and on our last day we walked right up the beach and rode the current/swam right back to our spot. It was rather a long way and we were very glad to have our noodles with us. We had bought the children’s noodles from home, and I realized that Lexie’s noodle was in fact the same one she had when we went swimming all the time when I was pregnant with Angus. That would make it 9 years old – probably the oldest pool noddle in Australia! So we bought the kids a new noodle each and Dunc and I adopted their old ones and we are all happy.

Dunc has been playing with his GoPro camera underwater and Lexie has been busy using her waterproof camera too. We’ve seen sting rays and the most amazing collection of tropical fish. There is a little black and white stripy fish with a blue line running down its nose, which is so curious and completely fearless. They almost swim INTO your hands. We ran into our friends once more so we had a whole tribe of children on the beach and snorkeling in the water. We got all sorts of interesting looks and glances, and we guess that people were looking at Dunc with 2 women and 8 children and jumped to all sorts of conclusions. LOL.