Day 78: Cape Range National Park to Coral Bay

I got up early to watch my first and last sunrise from Cape Range. While walking along the beach I saw lots of birds and bluespotted fantail rays in the water. I was about to turn back when I saw a shadow in the water. I climbed up the sand dune in order to get a better look through the water. It was a 1m shark of some sort. Later looking through the ID book at the Exmouth visitors centre I think it was a type of dogfish(?). No matter what its called it was very cool to see it swimming along the shoreline.

After all that excitement I headed back to camp to help pack up and get ready to move further south along the Ningaloo coast. First we stopped in Exmouth again to grab supplies before heading to Coral Bay.

We rolled into Coral Bay after lunch and stayed at the People Park Coral Bay caravan park, which was just across the road from the beach. As soon as we had our site set up the kids and I went for a swim/snorkel but visibility was low so did not stay in for long. Instead we messed around jumping into the water from the sand bank into a deep drop-off.

Then everyone had showers to get the last several days of salt water out of our hair!