Coral Bay Part VI: Final Two Days

Wednesday November 3^rd:

After debating whether we should drive to Exmouth for a day trip, we decided to spend our last day at Coral Bay and just enjoy the last few moments we had with the beach and the house. In the morning we played a pretty competitive game of Pictionary. Although not everyone agreed it should count, I was impressed when I was able to make a drawing for Single Parent Family and Seb guessed One Parent Household. Those are almost exactly the same right!? After our game of Pictionary we just spent the rest of the day lazing around the beach and taking in as much sun as we could. 

Thursday November 4^th:

On our last day several of us woke up at 5 to see the sunrise. 

It was a pretty beautiful scene that made us feel like we were in the Lion King.

 We packed up the house and were on the road by 8 A.M.

 When we arrived at the airport we found out our flight had been delayed until 1:35 so we decided to check out Exmouth. After seeing the pretty quiet town of Exmouth, we all were happy with our decision to spend the last day at Coral Bay. The highlight of the day was that I finally got to do some driving in Australia! Definitely a little bit strange being on the left side of the road. Some of the major differences was reaching for the seatbelt over my left shoulder when it was actually on my right and having the blinkers for indicating turns be on the right side while the windshield wipers were on the left. After seeing my mom and Matt mix up the two several times I thought I would be error free. I ended up mixing them twice … what can you do! A little stop during the drive:

Before long we were back in Perth, with the feeling like we had just left the day before. All in all it was an amazing trip. So nice getting to spend the time together with my friends one last time in such a special place. 

Coral Bay: Part IV - Relaxing on the Beach

Monday, November 1^st:

Monday was my first day here that I didn’t go out for a dive. It was definitely nice getting to hang out with everyone during the day and get to see Coral Bay itself a little bit.

 Seb, Colin, Matt, Emily, Devon, Lauren, and I went for a snorkel off the beach. As I mentioned earlier, Coral Bay easily has the best snorkeling I have ever seen and a major part of that is the fact that you literally swim 50 feet off the beach and you are immersed in reef. I think we might have seen a sandy bottom twice during the whole 45 minute to an hour snorkel session and the rest of the time we were just swimming through these beautiful coral formations. After our morning snorkel, we played around on the beach for a while.

Devon doing a Free Willy impression.

Figured it would be nice if I were in a picture or two so I snapped a shot of myself.

And again.

 For lunch we went to the bakery and indulged in some delicious meat pies, and at night I actually got a little work done for a change.