Snorkelling Oyster Stacks, Cape Range National Park
Unfortunately today was our last day in the Exmouth area, as we must leave tomorrow. We have had three days of excellent snorkelling here, and we saved the best for last. Oyster Stacks was the best site we’ve been to, with hundreds of species of fish, and as the water is shallow, they were all easy to see.
Snorkelling Oyster Stacks, Cape Range National Park
We saw a huge variety of species, from tiny little fish only a couple of centimetres long, to large fish that would weigh 25 kilograms. There were a large number of kinds of butterfly and angelfish. We also saw some starfish, the first ones we’ve seen here. There are many very large parrotfish. You can hear them crunching away at the coral; it makes quite a loud noise. We snorkelled once before lunch and then again afterwards. It was very hot today so it was nice to be in the water so much.
After snorkelling we drove just a bit further south to the Mandu Mandu gorge. We didn’t walk in too far though as it was so warm. We also stopped at the Jurabi turtle centre where at least three different turtles come in to land to lay their eggs. We did see some turtle tracks in the sand though the turtles only come in at night.