Coral Bay: Majestic Mantarays

Going north the weather is getting warmer, we get to Coral Bay which is a small village near a nice bay where you can swim and snorkel. We book ourselves on a tour to go snorkeling with manta rays the next day. Manta rays feed on plankton and the ones we swam with were probably about 3 to 4 metres wide. Very impressive to see how they cruise the water. Definitely worth it, even though it was a very windy day and when we went out it was very cold and the sea was extremely rough. Very different from the snorkeling we did in Indonesia, where the water was warm and calm. The coral here (Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia’s equivalent to the Great Barrier Reef of the Eastern Coast) is beautiful, big and diverse kinds of corals. We see lots of turtles in the water from the boat and Julian swims alongside a turtle for 10 minutes!