PAT'S BIG ROAD TRIP WEEK FOUR

Hey Everyone,

We have basically stayed a week at Cape Range National Park/Kurrajong/Ningaloo Reef
and we have reception a lot earlier than we thought we would but we have been bush camping at Kurrajong.

One of the Wallabies we saw - Black Flanked Rock Wallaby - can you see it?

And so far this week we have: gone snorkelling with whale sharks, a lot of snorkelling on Ningaloo reef right off the beach where we're camping!!!, seen lots of animals like kangaroos, dingos and even an echidna on the side of the road, where I told someone who works with national geographic a new fact about echidnas and its that they have backwards feet which helps them shovel dirt when there digging.

This is one of the Whale Sharks we swam with

My mum with a whale shark

Me mum and dad on the Whale Shark Boat 

The people on our boat

The common Dingo

We've been on a couple of gorge walks the first one I hated but the second one I loved because I swam across Yardie Creek!

Me having a swim at Yardie Creek

Some fossilised coral found on our Yardie Creek Gorge Walk

So far we have travelled 7167kms!

Tomorrow we are off to Tom Price / Karijini NP, then we head to Broome - I will let you know about all the fun in my next Blog.

Bye!

Addit by Pat's Mum

Pat and I were driving along back to our camp at Kurrajong in the Cape Range National Park and we noticed an Echidna on the side of road. As we went past it, it started to cross the road - not a good thing for this Echidna to do! So we pulled over and waved down traffic so that passing cars would slow down and not hit it. Pat pretty much stood over it to protect it and told everyone driving past about this Echidna. Most people that came past stopped and Pat started telling everyone all of these interesting facts about Echidnas, like that they are monotremes, have backward facing back feet and the like.

Two days later we went on our Whale Shark Swim and Pat was telling one of the staff interesting facts he knew about Whale Sharks. The staff member looked at Pat funnily and asked him if he liked Echidna's! Pat said they are OK, and said that he was excited to have seen one on the side of the road a couple of days ago! Well the staff member said that they had a National Geographic Photographer on their boat yesterday, who was telling everyone about this kid called Pat who was telling him all this fantastic information about Echidnas!

Once we were on the boat, the photographer who works on the boat was one of the people with the National Geographic Photographer - when she saw Patrick she was sooo excited! So funny! Such a coincidence. Never a dull moment as this kid's mum!