Rather than give specific coordinates we would recommend that you buy a copy of " A Small Boat Cruising Guide to Shark Bay." by Hinchliffe and Deschamps.(2017) ISBN 978-0-9945536-2-1. It's available from the Discovery Centre at Denham or direct from http://publications.hinchy.org/index.html
Well worth the $30 even if you are in a smaller boat and want to explore the bays.
Our time in pictures and videos...
Now we know that you want to see fish photos but we admit to being the worlds worst photographers. This may explain it better...
The Mustang hasnt come to terms with the teeth on the Mackeral yet.
Here, one we'll call Fish Finger...
Finger over the the lens that is.
This is about as good as it gets. We've become expert and at making Fish cakes with the Mackeral. Only tried bottom bouncing a couple of times...
The bottom catch has been smaller than the bait. The Mustang was quite proud of this one.
Our favourite all weather anchorage has been at Ant island...
It's part of Useless Loops' holding.
They've put up Tim's Shack as part of their social club...
Including a nifty fire place and ...
...undercover dinghy parking.
A great safe spot to bunker down when the wind gets up. If you have enough chain out when it hits 50 Knotts(100 kph). Don't ask...
It hasn't been all fun and games though...
"The Guano Boat". It finally pulled its' mooring one stormy night and has been banished to the furtherest mooring out.
Had to extract and replace some snapped bolts in the crank.
Daily chores.
And have to make sure that your chair wasn't pinched when you went to make a drink.
Around the most Western Point...
The Mustang takes the relaxed approach...
Cape Peron...
and on to Monkey Mia. Where we ran aground. Leon, who hires out the boats to the tourists paddled out and showed us where to go. He also cowrote the book that we recomend if you are comming this way...
Ring side seat for the dolphion encounter...
They hung around us each day waiting for their cue...
Tetradon Loop is a shallow bay on the Eastern side of Dirk Hartog Island. Without the book and a high tide we would have struggled to get in. As it was...
This is our track in.
Well worth the effort. Not for the scenery...
...and dinghy rides...
...and the low tide walks,,,
...and making new tracks, but also you're are guarenteed a feed of...
...crabs.
The Mustang was a bit excited.
We ended up making Crab cakes as well.
The Great Keppel joined us for an explore of Freycinet Bay...
with his new tinnie in tow...
We didn't put a hole in it.
Lets go up there...
Should have bought some shoes...
What happens when you get to the top...
You still have to go back down to the sand flies.
We found a snapper patch but they were definitely too small. Between the gulls and the dolphins not many made it back to the bottom...
The dolphins followed(led) us to the spot and just waited...
The Great Keppel points us back to Denham.
We were very lucky to have the use of a mooring at Denham and used it as a base.
Afternoon at the fuel dock.
The locals leave it to the very last minute to head back in.
This little guy was having a tough time of it. We think he must have dived in too shallow water and was concussed.
The continuing quest for that elusive whale videos resumes...
We are in Carnarvon and can't get into the anchorage or Yacht Club. The breeze is still blowing from the South and it seems unlikely to give us the break we need to get back to Geraldton. So... The Mustang has flown back for appointments and will drive back and meet me wherever I can find to leave the boat.
