Meet dolphins@Monkey Mia, Little Lagoon & Shell Beach

Monkey Mia*****

Just 26kms from Denham, we reach the famous Monkey Mia Dolphin feeding interaction. It costs $8 pp for entrance to the park. There are 3 feeding session each day, which all commence before noon. The first session starts at 7.40am.

The dolphins here are wild, only five female dolphins are used to being fed everyday in the morning, but they are given only a small amount of fish each day, so they will continue to hunt naturally. 

This morning, the tide is quite low, so the dolphins are quite slow getting close to us. Normally when it is time for the first feed, they will come quite close to the beach and crowd. But eventually 5 of them turned up and for each dolphin, 4 lucky people get the chance to feed it.

We should have worn something more shiny or attractive that day! No chance in feeding the dolphins!

Fatty pelican had a tough time swallowing the fish after stealing from the dolphins.. HAHA...

Only after an hour from the first feeding, the second feeding commences. We were still around, so we had a look at the dolphins again. This time Angie was chosen to feed Nicky, the oldest female dolphin around! Yay... Nicky is so gentle, picking up the fish slowly from Angie's hand :)

At Monkey Mia (we still don't know why it's named Monkey Mia), there is a resort for the 'wealthier' people. There are also a theatre showing interesting documentaries about Shark Bay which is worth to spent time watching at least one. 

Little Lagoon

Dolphins? Sharks?? We are on a lookout coming back from Monkey Mia and look down to see this beach. About 20 of these are swimming around in the shallow waters. Peter thought they were the cute dolphins, but in fact they were SHARKS!!! Reef sharks.. should be harmless though.. But nobody swims around this beach.. LOL

Shell Beach****

It's one of a kind. Not sandy beaches but made of tiny cockle shells! These shells are actually mined for construction building in the old days, and today, they are used to feed the chickens so their egg shells become harder!

Buried in cockles!

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