Shark Bay has been declared a world heritage area as it has a massive area of sea grasses which provides habitat and breeding ground for lots of fish as well as a feeding ground for Dugong and Turtles. There also has been a rehabilitation programme for the bilby and mallee fowl.
We had to get up early the next morning to be at Monkey Mia by 7.30 for the dolphin feeding. The dolphins have been feed here for over 30 years. It is now very controlled and only five dolphins are feed and they are only given a small amount so they don’t rely on it and still have to hunt. They are only fed 3 times a day which is the morning and it depends on what time they come in to when they are fed.
When we arrived they were quite a few dolphins swimming around and a couple of young pups playing.
The water is very shallow and clear so you can see them easily. We all had to wait off the sand till the rangers come along and then we can move down and stand in the water. No one is allowed to touch the dolphin and only a few people are chosen to feed the dolphins.
We went and had a coffee while taking in the scenery.
There are two tourist catamarans that take you for a cruise on the bay. One called Shotover which used to be a very fast racing boat that one lots of races.
Our first stop was the Pearl Farm which produces black pearls. If anyone has been watching “The farmer wants a wife” farmer Jamie is on the pearl farm at Monkey Mia (we had watched the show the night before)
Of course everyone was asking him who he had chosen but he’s not allowed to tell. The pearl farm was very interesting and it was such an intricate process to seed the shells so you can understand why they are so expensive.
After leaving the pearl farm we had a chance to view some dugongs, some turtles and some dolphins.
. After we had sighted some animals we set the sail and were sailing along in a good breeze.
After that we went had lunch at the resort, watched done of the movies about the dolphins and then headed back after a very pleasant day.
Is the dolphin really that nice that it will not bite a person? I am so funny.
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