Day 43 – Exmouth

After breakfast we headed around the peninsula to the Milyering Visitor Centre on beautiful Turquoise Bay to check out the best snorkelling sites. There are many places to snorkel along a beautiful 80km stretch of coastline. The visitor centre has a good display of the best places to swim and snorkel. We paid for our day pass at the ranger station on the way in. There are plenty of wildflowers including the beautiful Sturt Desert Pea here too.

 

We settled for two sites, Oyster Stacks and the Turquoise Bay lagoon. Both absolutely beautiful stretches of pristine beach, with fine white sand, glorious greeny blue waters, and the water temperature – a heavenly 24 degrees.

The reefs are close to the beach, so we could snorkel the reefs straight off the beach. We were delighted to find many different kinds of colourful fish, including the brilliant electric blue tiny fish, the pretty black and orange angel fish, sea cucumbers, and many, many other types of marine life. It is a completely different world under the sea, and we absolutely love to get under the water and be reminded of God’s wonderful creatures. There is nothing else like it. The beach at Turquoise Bay is stunning – fine white sand, turquoise blue water.

 

My favourite was Oyster Stacks. It was tricky getting down off the beach and into the water as you had to walk over and around some sharp rocks,  but once you had accomplished that, oh my, the fishlife was just amazing. There were huge reef fish hiding underneath the oyster covered large rocks protruding out of the sea. Absolutely amazing.

On the way back around the Cape we stopped briefly at the Jurabi Turtle centre to view the information boards and beach. Unfortunately its not nesting season at present.

Then we called in at the Vlamingh Head lighthouse giving us stunning views over the end of the cape, where we could watch some whales spouting and rolling in the beautiful blue-green sea. We could also spot five oil rigs out in the distance. An amazing day. Put Ningaloo Reef on your bucket list people!