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CARAVANNING & adventure
IKicking back at gorgeous Coral Bay
14 Mile Beach is a great place to camp nice and close to the water.
HOPE everyone is taurants offer amaz- that you can swim out staying safe during ing food and are great to for a lap.
these crazy times. places to hang out for It’s approximately
Caravanning
by TODD EVELEIGH
The Western Australia lunch, dinner or cold 250m from shore and
border was still closed at the time of writing this article, though I am sure it will reopen in due course to allow us east coasters the oppor- tunity to venture over to the west coast to ex- plore.
the same latitude line as Gladstone on the east coast.
part of Western Aus- tralia.
refreshments.
There are also dive,
best to head out at low tide, plus it makes for fantastic GoPro footage.
A couple of our fa- vourite destinations on the west coast were Coral Bay and War- roora Station, which are located virtually along
An interesting fact is there are no permanent residents at Coral Bay, and you are not able to purchase a house or land in this beautiful
There are amazing snorkel sites straight off the beach at Coral Bay itself and from the sur- rounding beaches.
You are immedi- ately welcomed by all types of fish species, with amazing spangled emperor, parrot and all other types of reef dwelling species, and I have to say many large specimens at that.
Coral Bay consists of a very nice caravan park, a couple of resorts and a few pubs, and is set up for tourism.
Another interesting aspect of Coral Bay is that all the water is desalinated and can be purchased at a few of the resorts for $2-$4 for 20 litres, which is pret- ty reasonable I think, and while it doesn’t taste that flash, you can live off it.
snorkelling and fishing charter operators run- ning out of Coral Bay, with some amazing ex- periences on the reef.
When you first hop into the water, it goes from a nice sand bot- tom to a quick drop-off and then onto amazing coral formations out to the rock.
Four-wheel-driving over the sand dunes on the way to Coral Bay.
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A short walk from Coral Bay Beach and around the bay will take you to the shallow flats of a shark nursery, where you can walk out at high tide and have literally hundreds of small reef sharks
The pubs and res-
Off the main beach is an amazing coral struc- ture called Ayers Rock
It’s a great location for the whole family to have a snorkel because it’s very sheltered with considerably little cur- rent, so the kids can get right in on the action.
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