Ocean Park

Friday 22^nd.July.

Ocean Park is a short 7 klm drive from Shark Bay and a very informative place to see the marine life of Shark Bay. Marine biologists give regular tours of the facility, its set high above the water with lovely views all around. There are all types of marine life, sharks, turtles, barramundi, squid and other tropical fish. Shark feeding was part of the tour.

sting ray

Ocean Park

Turtle

Afterwards John and I had a coffee overlooking the water, looked around the gift shop and then went back to town.

 We booked a quad bike tour for tomorrow. It looks like fun and only goes for two hours.

John managed to catch a couple of fish when we drove out to Little Lagoon, a short distance from town.  One, a small flathead had to be released, it was too small. The other, a whiting, has no size restriction so he kept it. It was a pretty spot down at Little Lagoon, I opened the kitchen window and the door of the motor home and read my book, while John fished.

Saturday 23^rd July.

I loved the quad bike tour we did in the afternoon. I was a bit worried that it would be too hard to climb onto the bike, I was a passenger, John the driver. He had to get a few instructions and off we went. I managed to get onto the seat easily, we had to wear helmets and drivers wore fluro jacket.

Te guide took us up and over sand hills, along the beach and down a big hill at the end. It was both 2wd and 4wd. The bike seat was very comfortable, I thought the whole experience was so much fun. We stopped during the two hour tour at scenic spots. We saw a couple of reef sharks far below from the top of the cliffs.

                                     On our bike

I took this photo while we were going along the tracks.

We leave Shark Bay tomorrow for Kalbarri.