Left for Monkey Mia around 7:00 not really knowing what expect.  Paid my $8 entry fee and waited until 7:45 before we got onto the beach after a lecture from the rangers about how it worked.

Well you can only the next two hours the highlight of the trip so far.  One of the best things I have ever seen.  To have wild female dolphins with the offspring coming within a couple of feet of a group of people on their own terms and not in a pond was stunning.  After the first of the three feedings they are allowed to do each morning, the dolphins left and we were told they have usually back around 9:30 so decided to stay for that and had breakfast at the resort watching the dolphins play offshore.  When they come back there was alot less people there so it was even better.  Also it was different in that in was mostly the young dolphin that came to the beach and not the mothers which the rangers said was unusual. Then when the feeding bit came along I was one of the lucky ones that got to feed a dolphin.  Below is the one I got to feed plus the very nice lady that picked me.  That in itself was worth all the work to get there.

After that it was on the road to Carnarvon.  Not much to report until I crossed the 26th parallel when the vegetation thinned out quite alot.  Had a look around the town this afternoon and the annoying thing was the old OTC Station whose dish was part of the comms for the Apollo and other missions is  closed for renovations which is more than a bit annoying as it was the main thing I wanted to see here.  Everything else is about 75 km north I found when I got a real map.  Funny that the tourist brochure map was not scale.   All I can say about the town is the main street has been all dug up which makes finding your way around fun and security screens or weldmesh appear to be a very popular window decoration.

Not sure were I will get to tommorow but it will be early start as it starting to get hot of an afternoon.