On the way out of Carnarvon, we had to stop and check out the big banana (Jeff is doing his “tiger pose”, which we watched several 
tourists doing at the pinnacles the other day – people are so strange sometimes).
School holidays have started just as we arrive in Monkey Mia. This means that there are hoards of children running around, generally screaming and crying. This morning there was a kid checking out the dolphins w
ith his family and screaming his head off. To quote Mr. Miller, “What on Earth has that kid got to cry about? We are feeding wild dolphins!!!”
The rangers in the park do daily dolphin feeding (don't worry – they only feed them a bit so they still have to hunt on their own) and we went to the feeding this morning. Very luckily, we both were picked to feed a dolphin. Very cool. Later in the day, we were hanging out on the beach and one of the dolphins came cruising into the shallows (feet from the waters edge) and turned on it's side to give us the hairy eyeball. Wow!
Desp
ite all the screaming chaos, this place is pretty magic. There's some pretty cool geology – coquina, which is loosely cemented rock made entirely of finger nail sized shells. We passed on swimming since it wasn't that warm (apparently there's been a record cold snap lately – we have a 
history of this kind of weather) and shark bay is named as such for a reason.
tourists doing at the pinnacles the other day – people are so strange sometimes).
School holidays have started just as we arrive in Monkey Mia. This means that there are hoards of children running around, generally screaming and crying. This morning there was a kid checking out the dolphins w
ith his family and screaming his head off. To quote Mr. Miller, “What on Earth has that kid got to cry about? We are feeding wild dolphins!!!”The rangers in the park do daily dolphin feeding (don't worry – they only feed them a bit so they still have to hunt on their own) and we went to the feeding this morning. Very luckily, we both were picked to feed a dolphin. Very cool. Later in the day, we were hanging out on the beach and one of the dolphins came cruising into the shallows (feet from the waters edge) and turned on it's side to give us the hairy eyeball. Wow!
Desp
ite all the screaming chaos, this place is pretty magic. There's some pretty cool geology – coquina, which is loosely cemented rock made entirely of finger nail sized shells. We passed on swimming since it wasn't that warm (apparently there's been a record cold snap lately – we have a 
history of this kind of weather) and shark bay is named as such for a reason. 
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