Snorkelling around Ningaloo Reef (day 8 out of 24)

Woke up to the usual dawn chorus and the smell of bacon.  A universal camping fact:  no matter how early you get up, there's always somebody already out there rustling up a cooked breakfast.  

  

Today we went snorkelling around the easily accessible Ningaloo Reef in Coral Bay.  A glass bottom boat took us to two of the "hotspots", from where we donned flippers and masks and plunged into the 22c water.  Hannah and Ruby were well prepared, as they use snorkelling gear in their swimming classes and both swam like little fish today.  The views were magnificent.  We swam with fish of all shapes and sizes, including rather menacing looking "nor west" snappers. Our skipper told us about a famous large groper fish in the area nicknamed Merv, after Mervyn Hughes, the famous Australian fast bowler.  The female has the ability to change sex to a male, so he was previously known as Mervette.  

Unfortunately, no photos of the snorkelling as we were all in the water together.