Drifting

We had a lovely dinner last night at one of the more upmarket restaurants in Exmouth.  Jenny had a yummy spicy seafood gumbo including soft shell crab and Larry had gold band snapper with garlicky prawns and sauce.   We told the others about our snorkelling adventures and Clayton suggested the weather was expected to be less windy so should be good for snorkelling today. 

We leisurely got out of bed and consumed a cooked breakfast before departing for Turquoise Bay as we couldn't do that one yesterday as the tide was wrong and the current too strong. It was roughly 9:30am when we arrived and there was no wind and little cloud so ideal for snorkelling. We watched the people in the water and the method was to go to the south on the beach a bit and then swim out over the coral and drift with the current north until you decide you didn't want to be in the next bay and so head into the beach and repeat the process. This we did quite a few times and it was glorious again as there was just as much variety in fish and coral as the day before. The fish still seem to be smug knowing they are in a marine park. They are not afraid of humans splashing about in their domain.

We did this for a couple of hours until we decided that was another tick done on our trip and headed back around the cape to the town as we had some things to replenish. Gas bottle refilled, grocery shopping done, beer shopping done, plastic jerry cans for water shopping done and fuel for the Jeep done. 

Headed back to the van for a rest before putting on a roast.  We had a guest as Deb and Michelle had departed for Wyndham at first light and Clayton was batching it so of course he wasn't going to knock back a free roast meal and the roast was a bit too big for Larry and Jenny to consume on their own so it worked out well.  A delicious meal and a couple of drinks and another round of remembering history was done before Clayton called it a night as he had work the next day and we were going to Coral Bay.