More from Monkey Mia

We had quite a busy first day in Monkey Mia. After the dolphin feeding we went to have a quick look around Denham. On the way we stopped at a place called Little Lagoon. It is almost perfectly round and is connected to the sea by a tiny channel. It looked so beautiful that we wanted to swim but there are lots of stonefish in the area which are nearly impossible to see and can kill in a couple of hours if you step on them. So made the lagoon a bit less inviting. At least you could see a shark or a croc coming for you up north!




It didn't take very long to look around Denham as it is a small town. Very pretty and it had a great Visitor Centre with lots of information about the area. Jack filled in a questionnaire that they have for kids and Tom and Charlie spent the time fighting and throwing tantrums. Too many late nights I think.

We then drove to Ocean Park which is the aquarium. We had a look through various tanks and saw lots of fish and other creatures. However I think the highlight was the shark feeding. They had a big outdoor pool with lots of Lemon and Sandbar sharks.








Tempting place to throw naughty children!

After Ocean park we went back to the resort for a rest then went on a sunset boat cruise. We were on a catamaran called Shotover which was lovely. The wind was up so we were sailing along pretty fast with plenty of spray. Not very easy to drink on though, we all kept spilling them!



Michael helped with raising one of the sails.



The kids enjoyed sitting on the net as we were sailing along.



The sunset was really beautiful too. We even had a few dolphins swimming along behind us.

For those of you who watched a tv show called Farmer Wants a Wife a couple of seasons ago, we kept sailing past the Pearl Farm belonging to one of the farmers!