Today was mainly a pack up day of our Coffin Bay camp, but once the main pack up was done we decided to go and hire a couple of kayaks and paddle around Coffin Bay. You can get them from the Beachcomber shop near the caravan park. We also found that this shop had a better selection of bait for fishing and much cheaper than the general store. They sell a range of things, so it is worth having a look around.
We took the kayaks out for an hour around the bay. The coast line was really beautiful and the water surprisingly clear. We saw a razor fish, crabs and a scallop. I learnt a new fact thanks to Colin East, that scallops can swim! Even though they are in a shell. They open and close so they can move away.Â
On the way back we were followed by a couple of dolphins. These magical creatures are always amazing no matter how many times you see them. The interesting thing is it made a really loud sharp bark sound out of its blow hole and did this maybe 5 times in total, going back under water in between each bark. The first one nearly made Col jump out of his seat. It was very close and surprisingly loud. We were worried it might have been sick or hurt but it just swam along with us the whole way back. If anyone knows what that behavior is or have heard it before I would be interested to know. I tried looking it up. Neither Col or I have ever heard a dolphin make that noise before, it was very interesting.Â
Afterwards we went back to Beachcomber and had a steak sandwich which was really, really good. Possibly the best food of everything we had in Coffin Bay (except our freshly caught whiting of course!). They are also licensed which was nice to have a bevy with our meals.Â
The temperature had finally dripped and we had a refreshingly cool night. Ready for the move to Streaky tomorrow.
Love dolphins, but haven’t heard of thus noise
Me either, so weird!