Day 660 – Esperence, Australia

Day 660 – 30th March 2007 +7:00 GMT

Had to get up fairly early as we had booked on the 9am wildlife cruise.

Wildlife Cruise

Martin looked very worse for ware. But we all boarded the boat at 8:50am and set sail at 9am.

Our Boat

The cruise started by taking us around the harbour where we saw huge ships that come over from Asia to fill up with grain or nickel. Then we started cruising the archipelagos.

Jill And I On The Boat

The Beautiful Clear Water

Within a few minutes we saw a few pods of dolphins so stopped to take photos and the dolphins followed the boat for a while.

A Dolphin

A Dolphin

Pair Of Dolphins

We then saw Australian sea lions and New Zealand fur seals.

Australian Sea Lion

New Zealand Fur Seals

We encountered a few sea eagles and many other birds.

A Sea Eagle

A Sea Eagle

Gull

We then stopped at woody island which is a nature reserve. Here we were served a morning tea and then taken on a nature tour of the island, we saw many wild birds and some amazing scenery.

A Bird On Woody Island

View From Woodys Island

We then got on the boat and it returned us to Esperence harbour.

Esperence Water Front

We stopped at the tea rooms for some lunch and then headed back to the hostel to catch up on some well earned sleep. We had a quiet evening watching TV and eating take away.