Shark Bay World Heritage Site

We continued up the Northern Hwy passed the Billabong and Overlander Roadhouse on to Shark Bay Rd.  This took on a long desolate road up the pennisula to Monkey Mia.  We were struck by the red soil contrasting with the pearl white shell beaches, and the emerald sea.  Our first stop in the area was Shell Beach.  We brought our packed lunch and walked out onto this amazing beach litterly made up entirely of small white sea shells for as far as you could see.  It was also very windy, but hot and sunny.

We continued on up the road for another 1hr. and into Monkey Mia , a World Heritage Site, due to it's unusual coastline and work with the dolphins .  We had 2 ocean side villa's and took a dip in the Indian Ocean.  The water was cooler than I thought it would be.  Relaxed in the sun and enjoyed a nice dinner at the resort.

Next morning Betty got up to stroll the beach and the dolphins were in by the shore and several comical pelicans were a fixture on the beach.

Dinner the night before was good and the restaurant is pretty much open air.  The only distraction  or should I say  comic relief was the seagulls which took every opportunity to steal food from patrons plates if they left their food unattended.  Luckily there was a young family next to us with small kids who chased off the shit hawks as well as some customers.  For dessert we ordered a Chocolate Mars Bar Sundae with 4 spoons.  We all dove in with relish, but apparently all this chowing down seemed to offend our germaphobe son , who retorted "you people make me sick". 

The next day Dolphins and more Dolphins!  An amazing place where the Dolphins come into shore every day in the morning since the early 60's.  Along with the Dolphins come the Pelicans looking for food.  They do a couple of feedings each day and this obviously attracts tons of people.  When we got to the resort there were a handful of people around but in the morning its like someone watered the sidewalks as people popped up out of no where.  When the feeding was done they would disappear.  All I can say is what a cool place but like any animal attraction the tourists seem to be everywhere and oblivious to the laws of nature.  The dolphins are wild but they now come there every day expecting food and there is no way now to change the human contact.  

The Pelicans are cool and will stare you down when you approach.  Enjoy the pics.

All the dolphins were named.  I'm not sure which one this was.  Lets call him Flipper to make it easy.

Kaelyn made a friend but wouldn't go any closer.  I was willing to risk a bite for the picture but she wasn't!  Chicken.

This is Eagle Bluff where you could look out on this bay and sure enough we saw a shark swimming near shore.  We tried to take photos of it but all it shows up as is a black blob.