Monkey Magic

Trip Start Oct 01, 2005
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Trip End Jul 21, 2007


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Monday, January 15, 2007

On the way down to Shark Bay we took a turn off the highway and down to the ocean to view the oldest living organisms EVER. They are called Stromatolites and have been around for a totally incomprehensible 350 billion years. Technically they are cyanobacteria and because of them emitting oxygen it has enabled other lifeforms including us to develop, so we gave praise to the forest of circular rocklike protuberances that stand together on the edge of the sea, for 10 minutes. And then carried on our way. It was like an oven although not humid here. We also left the tropics today, crossing the tropic of capricorn for the 3rd time. We assessed each others levels of troppo infection and decided that apart from some feral outbursts, and frankly terrifying hallucinations we had all come through relatively unscathed.
Monkey Mia was our stop for the night and is located on the banks of Shark Bay just past the most western town in the whole of Australia; Denham. Monkey Mia is famous for one thing, the dolphins who come to get free fish every morning. Now I think i've been spoiled by viewing jumping dolphins at Sea World and other aquariums or seeing them jumping next to a boat, because I was less than flabbergasted watching 3 dolphins take a fish each out of the hand of a ranger with about 200 other people. I'd rather watch turtles crawl up the beach in pitch blackness.
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little_bit_up
little_bit_up on

...a golden opportunity missed!
Poyser, disappointing really - such an interesting placename and you manage to write an entire entry about it without even alluding to why it has such an esoteric title! I refuse to look it up for myself, I will instead wait patiently until you tell me all about it.

In the meantime, let me congratulate you once again on a thrilling read, gripping both in terms of dialogue, character, plot and narrative style :) I had heard that Ningaloo reef was something special, but seeing your write up of it makes me feel like jumping in a campervan right now and driving nonstop until I get there!!

Now - do text us your new landline, and we'll call you up for a chat. Hope you've had an excellent Australia day too.

B & S

little_bit_up
little_bit_up on

oh, and....
...pick that crap up off the floor.

k, thx, bye

B

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