RV TRAVEL
If you are boat-less but still want to get out on the water , Wildsights offers marine-life viewing tours from the Monkey Mia pier on their sailing catamaran . With the most expansive meadows of diverse seagrass species on planet earth , Shark Bay supports a stunning diversity of marine-life and there is no better way to observe this than by boat .
These waters are home to about 10,000 dugongs , 10 per cent of the world ' s total population . There are over 2000 dolphins ; this includes the 300 Monkey Mia dolphins . Six thousand marine turtles ( green turtles and loggerheads ) also thrive on the seagrass meadows .
Shark Bay is not called Shark Bay without reason : there are at least 28 shark species . Manta rays , along with other ray species , frequent the bay .
It seems that every time we are driving on the North West Coastal Highway , even if the plan is to skip Shark Bay this time , as soon as we reach the Overlander Roadhouse we are drawn west , and we immediately decide to return to our favourite places in Shark Bay . This is such a special place and I , for one , will never get tired of exploring it . Shark Bay : a World Heritage Site it most certainly is .
Aerial view of Monkey Mia . ( Pic : Tourism Western Australia .)
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