Shark Bay/Carnarvon 26/3

After leaving Monkey Mia we visited some other areas around Shark Bay. At Shell Beach the beach is made up of small shells.



The world's best known colony of Stromatolites are based at Hamelin Pool. Stromatolites are microbes identical to those that existed 1900 million years ago and evolved into the foundation of life.



We had an overnight stop at Carnarvon. It was very windy on the seafront. We later learned a cyclone was expected somewhere ahead of us in the north west.



The camp site was close to the OTC dish which was established by NASA to monitor the Gemini and Apollo space missions. It is now abandoned.