The Ningaloo Reef

Again we spent a whole day driving and arrived in Exmouth just before dark. We wanted to camp in the National Park so by the time we arrived there (at Ned's camp!) it was really dark, there were loads of kangaroos on or by the road and had to drive really slowly! The following day we headed into town to book some diving at the navy pier and maybe a snorkel with the whale sharks that visit this area. However, no-one was running diving trips to the navy pier for another 2 weeks and the whale sharks wouldn't be arriving until mid March, bloody typical. We went back to the national park and had a look around. We went snorkelling off a couple of the beaches there which was awesome, one place (turquoise bay) was fantastic, we saw so much and was as good as any reef dive I've done! So we did get to see some sea life there, if not the stuff we went there to see, hey-ho, nevermind. This place was another really beautiful part of Australia with loads to see. At night however, mainly because we were staying in the national park, we were absolutely bombarded with all sorts of insects! There were so many, and lots of them were really interesting and we took plenty of photos. I also found a red back spider in the toilets (a dangerous species!) but when I went back with my camera she was gone (I know it was a she as I bought myself a book on Spiders of Australia and have been studying them, it pays to be informed on these things!!)