Denham / Monkey Mia

Day 88. Denham It rained overnight and in the morning as we were leaving Carnavan. That was good for the farmers. We drove to Denham which is on Shark Bay. We rode our bikes around town. Our caravan is right on the beach. The caravan park is the most west caravan park in Australia. It was really windy today but not much rain in the afternoon.

Day 89. Monkey Mia Today we got up early because we had to leave for Monkey Mia to feed the dolphins. It was about 20 minutes drive and we got there at 7.30. The first feeding of the dolphins was at 8.00 and my brother Brock got to feed a dolphin but I didn't. There were 200 people looking at the first feeding. After that we had hot chocolate at the Monkey Mia Resort then watched a film on dolphins in the wild. We saw heaps of dolphins in the bay at Monkey Mia and when I was by myself not at feeding time, unexpected dolphin came and there was around about 20 people there and I got so close to 4 dolpins in the water. but you werent allowed to touch them. In the afternoon we went for a boat ride on a catamaran called Shotover and we saw 2 dugongs in the wild and 2 dolphins in the wild. It was a bit of a windy day when we were sailing.

Day 90. Denham, Francois Peron National Park.Today we went for a bike ride in Denham, then in the afternoon we went for a drive to Ocean Park were we saw lots of fish and turtles and sharks. We them feed the fish and the sharks. Then we went for a drive to the Peron Homestead and Brock and I sat in the hot tub which was naturally hot spring water.Then we went to Little Lagoon for a walk before we went back to camp.The weather was nice today around 25 degrees and no wind.

DAY 88 - 90, AUGUST 12 - 14

DAY 88 - AUGUST 12th Today we left Carnarvon and travlled to Denham which is in shark Bay. We camped at the Denham Seaside Tourist Village where it is very nice and close to the beach. it is the most westerly caravan park in Australia!After we set up we rode our bikes into towns and got a couple of magazines and a newspaper the newspaper blew away cos it was so windy and we only had 4 pages left.
DAY 89 - AUGUST 13th Today we left at 7am in order to be at the dolphin feeding at Monkey Mia. When we got there, there was already lots of people there. But when we started there was only 3 dolphins but at the end of the feeding session there was 8 dolphins. I got to feed a dolphin myself and I was the last person to feed a dolpin. You had to hold the fish in the middle and the dolphin would come up to you and open its mouth and then you had to place the fish flat in the water and I had to put it in her mouth. We werent allowed to touch the dolphins.After the feeding we had some hot chocolates and muffins. And then we saw a documentary about dolphins in the wild. After the documentary we went back to the camper and had some lunch. Then we had to come back to Monkey Mia for a catamaran sail cruise. Where we saw a few dugongs and a couple of dolphins.
DAY 90 - AUGUST 14th Today we went for a bike ride in the morning around Denham then in the afternoon we went to the Ocean park 8km out of Denham where they had lots of fish, a sting ray, turtles, sharks and other marine creatures. We saw them feed the fish and the sharks. We went for a drive to Peron Homestead and had a sit in the hot tub then went to Little lagoon for a walk before returning home to watch the sunset and after that we watched tv.