complicated than we first though. We went back to Exmouth dive centre, but they wouldn't allow us to do the course on Sunday as that's the day they go to the Muiron Islands and they don't do the course at the islands. Their course takes three days so it would mean staying at least til next Wednesday and we can't really afford the time. We were very disappointed that they wouldn't allow us to do the course at the Muiron Islands, even though we offered to pay more. Not great customer service. Then we went to Ningaloo Reef Dreaming and were about to book with them when we discovered it wasn't a PADI qualification they were offering but some other equivalent qualification. We both wanted to stick with PADI so moved on from there. The next place we went to offered a night dive which we really wanted to do but no course. Another dive shop weren't doing ANY diving during whale sharking season (!) so finally we booked with Village Dive , who were the only dive shop offering exactly what we were after -- a two day course with dives at the Muiron Islands. We then had to go and get some underwater cameras as we both want to do the underwater photography option of the dive course.By this time it was well past lunch time. We quickly had something to eat and packed our snorkelling gear to head to Turquoise bay in Cape Range National Park. It was a nice drive round the coast to Turquoise bay and we spotted some wildlife, like a big black lizard crossing the road. We settled ourselves on the beach, but we didn't stay long. There were loads of massive flies around and they kept landing on us. We couldn't be sure that they were not sandflies so we just couldn't relax....the last thing we wanted was a load of sandfly bites. So we got back in the car and decided to head back towards Exmouth. It turned out to be a great decision.
I thought I spotted a Kangaroo in the distance, so we both got out our zoom lenses and tried to take some pictures. We were pretty excited at having seen a life kangaroo in the wild -- we had seen so many dead ones up until now. It was coming up to dusk and suddenly we learned exactly why it's so dangerous to drive at this time of the evening. There were kangaroos everywhere, really close to the sides of the roads. It took us ages to get back as we stopped to take photos so many times. I couldn't believe it when we saw one kangaroo with a joey in her pouch sitting right at the edge of the road watching us. We also saw some emus, a bustard, and a huge wedge tailed eagle.We also stopped off at some sand dunes for sunset. It was really weird walking on the dunes as there were no other footprints -- it felt as if we were the first people ever to visit or something. And the light over the dunes was really lovely as
the sun set. Another day over and the next couple of days we'll be diving. We've booked into the potshot resort for the next three nights even though I hate this place -- it's full of cockroaches and the sheets are filthy. But we won't have chance to move before going diving in the morning so we haven't got much choice. No harm to slum it once in a while I guess.
