Coral Bay

My friend Wendy wrote and said I hadn't blogged recently but the days in Coral Bay get to be pretty much the same.26 of a day, 12 or so of a night, we fish, if we don't fish we swim. We were excited to see a big manta ray leap about 2 metres clear of the water the other day whilst we were fishing. We never get tired of seeing all these wonderful things



Friday we took a day off both and went North up the sealed road then into Ningaloo Station. Our neighbours Rob and Amy suggested we go look at the old whaling station just 3ks beyond the homestead so off we went. Rob gave us very specific directions but after travelling 15ks (almost to Yardie Creek) we admitted defeat and turned back. It seems CALM have taken over the station and we should have registered, paid and taken a key to unlock the new gate put up! Next year!!

We still had a lovely day out, stopping along the way to fish (caught a nice trevally off the beach) cook a few sausages on the beach for our lunch, and take some photos at my favourite sand dune.


(This bottom one was taken at the same place 12 months ago)

Yesterday Rob and Russ had planned to go octopus hunting. It's done on the reef at low tide with hooks to haul the ockies out of their holes. The skies opened up, down came the rain and Rob and Amy packed their tent up a day early and headed home to Newman where they both work for BHP. We've been invited to visit them at their farm in Nannup as they'll be living back home after Christmas or we'll meet again up here next year.

We've been catching and eating lots of fish. I've had the best time finding interesting recipes to use them in-whole fish, filleted fish, crumbed, curried, grilled and over stir fries. The end result of all this fish is me managing to lose 31kgs!

Russ and I have almost decided to do the boring old people thing and book here for 3 months next year. I had never really thought why I'm so happy here but Russ pointed out the fact I can swim in the sea or the heated pool and that the weather is just so right for us pleases me.