Shell Beach - Shark Bay

This has been on my bucket list, a beach with no sand, a beach made entirely of shells! Well, we finally made it there and it was great.

The beach is made up of billions upon billions of tiny cockle shells. There is only two beaches like this in the world ( apparently). The cockle can survive here due to the very high salt content of the water produced by the stromatolites near by, but their predators can not, producing the high shell content on the beach.

I went prepared with a zip lock bag to collect my shells. A bit later on Lyla pulls my bag of shells out of the beach bag and asks me “what is this?” I told her it was a secret and to put them back in, as you are not meant to take shells from the beach! Lyla then starts in a not so quite voice saying “but you can’t take those there is a sign, there is a sign over there on the way in that says don’t take the shells” 😂😂 thanks Aunty Kat for reading her that sign on the way in. Lyla then kept collecting shells and telling me they were secret shells for my bag, at least she was whispering now.Read more