Dolphins, Ava’s favorite animal and most looked forward to experience. And the dolphins at Monkey Mia did not disappoint! They are such beautiful animals, graceful yet very cheeky.

It was decided that because of the rain forecasted we would head to Monkey Mia earlier than had planned so we were a little disorganized and left later than we wanted. Steve was very concerned we would miss the dolphin feeding and it would be a waste of a day and we’d have to go back. Yes, we missed the first session, with 155 tourists and 3 dolphins. But we made the second session, which only had around 70 tourists and 14 dolphins and Noah was one of only 5 people selected to feed a dolphin! So Noah held the fish while Ava and I stood next to him and he actually got to feed the dolphin (a beautiful dolphin called Nicky) a fish! It was SO amazing being so close to this creature of the sea. It seemed to smile at Noah as if to thank him for the fish. Ava was quite disappointed to not be the one who handed the fish over but at least she got to stand very close to one! She is still convinced she will swim with one 🙂

Moneky Mia is a touristy type of place but I really liked it. It was nice to get a good coffee and some civilization! There were Emu’s strolling round which the kids enjoyed (from a distance of course!!), and they got to play a game of chess on a giant board while I spoke to my Mum on the phone (I miss you Mumma!!).

We drove back to our camp at Nanga Bay Resort (not much of a ‘resort’ there but a nice place to base ourselves) through Denham and

there was a kids street performer on the foreshore so we got to eat lunch watching some very talented people do some crazy tricks (juggling, acrobatics, singing).