Some 1200km north of Perth lies Exmouth, a hub for fishing and diving tourism. The big draw is the Ningaloo Reef which can be explored by simply wading into the water and swimming just metres offshore. The beauty of this shore reef is that there are so few people living here the coral is almost untouched by pollution and it is so vast even a busy beach seems spartan. There are three sites we snorkelled : Coral Bay, Turquoise Bay and the Oyster Stacks.Turquoise Bay is just as it sounds , fantastic coloured water and it has a drift current flowing over part of the reef. Imagine a lazy river over thousands of fish, some turtles and the occasional reef shark. We spent two days there diving amongst the coral- Liam inspecting a spotted ray (not the Steve Irwin kind). He also tried to check out an octopus which went deep crimson red when it thought we were after it. Boats and Meaghan also had a snorkelling tour closer to the main reef .
Their highlights included a loggerhead turtle, another reef shark and a Queensland grouper.
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