Coral Bay

Sandy beaches and cobalt blue water - nice!

We have stayed at Coral Bay many times over the years and consider it one of the jewels of the west coast.

 It offers snorkelling in beautiful coral, quad bike tours, glass bottom boat viewing, fish feeding, beaut sandy beaches, 4WD tracks, fishing, tennis, great pubs, restaurants, yummy bakery and sunsets to die for.

And we did them all!

Did I mention the bakery?

This was the first time that our daughter, husband, granddaughter and Molly the mutt had been to Coral Bay so we had a special time with family.

We haven't changed a bit in 30 years?

By a lucky co-incidence it was Linda and my 30th wedding anniversary so we had a nice dinner out with the family (less Molly) to celebrate the 30 years together. Boy where did those years go so fast?

Spangled Emperor and Seamus

Before heading north from Perth I had been “Youtubing” catching spangled emperor on big rooster poppers. One for the “bucket-list”! In two early morning sessions we hooked five big spangles - but large fish, shallow water, and zillions (well a lot) of coral bommies wasn’t a recipe for success. Despite high rodding and heavy drag’s there are four $20 poppers decorating coral bommies down near the five fingers reef. So - if your diving in the area and find an old gold coloured popper hanging off the reef it’s probably mine. My son-in-law Seamus did manage to get a 72 cm specimen in the boat – so he won’t be coming again!

Bugger!!

Link to my short video is HERE