Coral Bay to Shark Bay
Trip Start
Mar 01, 2006
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Trip End
Dec 01, 2007
Where I stayed
Denham, Australia
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
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With Tahti and Schuert we had decided to meet in the early afternoon, after my possble manta ray/diving tour, to set off to Shark Bay.
In the morning I was feeling ok, but still a bit weak, and I knew it would be better to rest. Add to that my being very late in updating the travelogue, so I decided not to go to the water. I still got up at seven, and spent 3 hours on computers, with breaks meeting up with people.
Tahti and Schuert were back for lunch, and we left Coral Bay at around 1:30. That turned out to be a bit late for our day's schedule.
Leaving Coral Bay we drove throuhg the Tropic of Capricorn. The secong leg of the journey south along the west coast had started, with Sjuert and Tahti. Leaving Coral Bay we left a note to posterity.
We drove all afternoon, giving on he way a driving lesson to Tahti: she had never driven with a manual gearbox.
In the evening we reached the Overlander Roadhouse. A roadhouse is usually a petrol station with a shop, restaurant, caravan park and motel at the same time, lost in the middle of nowhere on a hundreds km road.They are indicated on road maps, as they are necessary refuelling stops.
From the Overlander roadhouse, we headed west towards Shark Bay. We stopped in the southern part of the bay to view the sunset over the stromatolites. These colonies of cyanobacterias are very similar to the first lifeforms on earth, and are quite rare. They form limestone mounds in the water.
We had to drive 1h30 more in the night to Denham. After two such experieces, it appears that driving at 50-60 km/h leaves enough time to wildlife to run away, or just cross stupidly in front of the car, but without making me brake to try not runover them. I speak of kangaroos and sheeps and goats and rabbits.
In Denham, Shark Bay, we found a pack of beers, a camping where the owners did not really want us in but we got in anyway, and there we cooked the remains of the past few days: rice and onions and tuna in tomato sauce and melted cheddar cheese... a great meal!!!
The landscape was different from before, being more coastal and less tropical: no more savana, only short bushes scattered on the red sand. In Shark Bay, some places are just covered with compacted shells (there are even shell quarries, from where they extarct construction blocks).
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Comments
Boahhh!!!
Hé gros SES t'as pas regardé si y'avait mon nom toujours marqué sur la ligne au milieu de la route!!!
En tout cas le panneau etait pas salopé comme ça avant, bande de salauds!!!!