10 exciting days later..... Perth to Broome

Bhuuu... Where to begin? We ve seen so much these past 10 days... So we set off for our 10 day trip the March 31. In pooring rain we met up with our tourguide Tony and our group for the tour.. As it was going to be the pretty much all of the next days we started out driving about 700k just our first day. We stopped at amazing pinnacle desert even though the heavy winds almost blew us away.. The next day we made our way up to Monkey Mia, which is famous for its dolphins and its pelicans. So we got to see a whole crowd of dolphins, swimming around the bay=)! At night we already got to go on one of the highlights of the tour; we got to do a walk with an Aboriginal, telling us about his culture, his people, stories, their way of life. We got to try freshly cooked fish from the fire and got to look at the stars while they were playing digeridoo or jiggy jiggy as they actually call it. The next morning already again we had a long drive ahead,stopping at beautiul shell beach where the beach is covered in shells instead of sand. We got to Coral Bay that night and decided to do a Manta Ray Tour the next day, which already again ended up being a highlight of the trip! We went out with a boat bringing along snorkeling gear so we first got to just snorkel around the Ningaloo Reef and to see colorful fish, Rays and turtles. And then we actually got to see a Manta Ray!!! After Anna really had overcome her fear of all the small and larger animals and really jump in few km off the shore we could follow the 4m wide Ray..... It was just amazing to see that gracious animal float along..... Really impressive!!!!! Oh and I almost forgot- on our way back we got to go to a Shark Cleaning Station. There is a certain kind of fish that lives in that place and the sharks go there so these fish can stick on them to clean them.... Well so we actually snorkeled like 3-4 meters away from these reef sharks.... You should have heard Anna scream....;) So us "moutain girls" actually got some taste of the open ocean and LOVED it! Via Exmouth we went along over unsealed bright red dirtroads up tp Karijini National Park-definitely another highlight!!! No mobile phone signal, no showers, just nature, stars, a great crowd of people and unfortunately also a whole lot of flies....The next day s we spent visiting 6 of these gorges in the National Park- brooding heat for all the walking to the gorges but refreshing natural pools and wonderful waterfalls was the reward!! It was just totally a break from everything, a small wonderful happy world where you can totally forget about everyday life and just live the moment!!! It s probably easy to guess that we almost didnt want to leave that little paradise anymore.... Even though it felt so good to have a proper shower after a few days of no shampoo and shower gel... For our last night we got to sleep on the beach, once again under stars, which was another highlight!!! Awesome!!! Even though sleeping outside on the ground in Australia was for me like swimming wiht the sharks for Anna- I kept thinking all the venemous snakes and crabs on the beach were oput to get me and crawl into my sleeping bag..... Men, I become an early rising person- just spend as much time as neccessary on that ground...;) 3000k, heaps of experiences later we re now up here in Broome, feeling really sad to part with our group... It s amazing how quickly you get used to people-even more if it is a great crowd!!! Tonight at 8pm we re off to Perth again where Shona is going to pick us up from the airport... Next week we re off to the South...