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Last night in Exmouth

Today was pretty cool. We went back to Turquoise Bay half expecting the water to be murky since it poured all night last night. Instead the water was calm and beautifully clear. Ahhh, bliss. Brenda and I snorkeled together and I saw another octopus and a couple more giant clams. We were allowed free time to snorkel or just play in the water as we wanted. I went snorkelling with Jon and Sandy, Dana tagged along too, I saw two sea turtles and one of them kept reshowing up! I went back to our hotel and was able to shower. The second group of students who wanted to go night diving were not able to since the boat was broken. I'm really glad that I was able to do the dive, it was spectacular. We drove back and joined the rest of the group at the Maldura Wreck in Bundegi. The tide was low so we were able to walk around in the tide pools since it was a rocky intertidal area. There were tons of octopus!!!! There were also a bunch of sea hares which were really fun to hold, soft, squishy and slimy!!! We also saw hairy crabs which were really hairy, more giant clams and some small mud crabs. We had to watch out for the cone snails that were in the area. These snails are very defensive and have a stinger with enough poison to kill an adult human. Nasty critters. Luckily, the only cone snails we saw were dead cone snails, as in, their shell.

Tomorrow morning we leave early for a very long drive to Port Hedland. From there we'll be driving to Broome the next day. G'Day!!

posted by Amy M @ 7:21 AM