Shark Bay |
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The fair Nello takes a bit of latitude |
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Here comes the rain |
The old Post Office at Hamelin Pool |
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Old quarry where shellgrit blocks were cut for building material |
Welcome to Shark Bay |
A cluster of defunct stromalites |
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Living stromatolites - still producing oxygen |
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Shoreline at L'Haridon |
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Sunglasses on - the shellgrit beach of L'Haridon Bight |
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Lighter sandy bottom and dark sea-grass beds at Eagle Bluff |
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Monkey Mia walks
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The emus checking out our campsite |
Young emu |
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The red sands of the interior dunes |
Zebra finch at the waterhole |
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White coastal sand dunes |
Return along the beach |
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The curious green, black and pink banding of the rock platform |
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The "Shotover" salis by |
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The incredible redness of Peron |
A passing band of cloud arrives to suck the colour from the landscape |
Toe-breaker Rocks |
Unfortunately, while returning the fair and bare-footed Nello painfully tested out the hardness of the knobbly limestone rock platform with her middle toe, obliging her to hobble back to Monkey Mia. We were to find out later that it was broken, so it was just as well this was the last walk of our northwestern adventure - if it hadn't been already it would most certainly have been. |
The colours of Shark Bay |
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Monkey Mia dolphins |
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Cormorant checking out the crowd |
The cliffs of Peron glowing red at dawn |
A pelican arrives for a feed as well |
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One of the famous bottle-nosed dolphins of Monky Mia doing a shore patrol |
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The dolphins start coming into shore .... |
... to generate oohs and aahs from the crowd |
The fair Nello gets to hand feed a dolphin |
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Staircase to the sun |
Pelican in silver and gold |
The end of the day - the end of the trip |
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