Monkey Mia

Arriving just after sunset. Two roads, 345km, 5hrs later, the wind over the flat lands was pretty wild which kept pushing the bus along the straight roads to the resort.

Shark Bay is the most western point of the coast of Australia and is made up of two peninsulas jutting out into the Indian Ocean.
The 160 kilometre Shark Bay World Heritage Drive runs between the Overlander Roadhouse on the NW Coastal Hwy to Monkey Mia, where a pod of dolphins have made their home and freely interact with visitors

Mia is the local Aboriginal term for home or shelter, while the Monkey part of the name is thought to derive from a pearling boat called Monkey that anchored at the now Monkey Mia in the late 19th century, during the days when pearling was an industry in the region.Read more