Sunday, 18 May 2014 6.0kms
We were greeted with another beautiful Ningaloo morning, not a breath of wind, not a cloud in the sky and the gorgeous calm, turquoise water. Nath decided it was a great boating day and took the tinny with Nanny, Poppy and Hendrix down to Pilgramunna to launch. They then headed out through the reef as it was such a cracking day and went fishing. There was very little swell so the seas were calm.
Elokin and I stayed in camp and cleaned up a bit before enjoying each other’s company playing games and reading. Elokin got a new book from Nanny and Poppy when they arrived, so she started reading it to me. I quite enjoyed what she read to me and she is becoming a very good reader. I also took her to the beach to have a look at how good it was out there and El went for a swim. We didn’t stay down there long as we didn’t have the sunscreen and it was almost midday so we would get cooked.
When the fisher people returned, there was no fish with them. Poppy and Hendrix brought the car back and Nanny and Nath brought the boat to the beach and put it at anchor. Nath had hooked a good fish but with a bit of line confusion happening, it got sharked and the fish was no more. Hendrix saw it and said it was a purple fish, but he was the only person to see it in the water. They did see lots of sharks and Nath spotted a whale. He wasn’t sure what kind, but from the description of the fin and black streamlined body, we are thinking a false killer whale, so that is pretty exciting.
After a late lunch of crunchy squid salad with crispy noodles, we headed straight out from camp in the tinny towards the reef to go for a snorkel. It was rather shallow and the visibility still wasn’t great. We had a great time anyway. This was Nanny’s 2nd snorkel and she loved it. By the end she had got the hang of it and calmed down to actually enjoy what she was seeing. Now you must understand, Nanny doesn’t put her head in the water to swim, and if she is going under to wet her hair, she has to hold her nose as she has never learnt to blow air out of it. So to be able to breathe through her snorkel and have her face in the water is amazing. I am very proud of her, in fact we all are. Nath and I found heaps of broken fishing line wrapped around coral. We attempted to untangle it and free the coral from its mess, but it was way too hard. I couldn’t even find the ends of them to see if they had a good lure on the bottom of them.
After snorkelling for over an hour we climbed back into the boat and headed back to camp to get dinner organised as it was already 4.30pm.
I had to find my jeans tonight to go with my jumper as the air was quite cold. There were millions of stars and they were bright. When Nath and I went to check on the boat, one star to the west had a reflection right across the water to shore like the moon normally has. I was impressed.
Until next time…. Happy and Safe Travels.