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08/30/24 - Goodbye to Ningaloo Reef

We woke up with the sun on our last morning at Ningaloo Reef. We had a few visitors. There was a cockatoo with big blue eyes and a whale breaching right off shore. We hadn't gone out on a whale watch, so it was nice that a whale had decided to make a house call. Walking to the lodge for our pickup, we solved a mystery. Often, while walking back from the lodge to our tent after dinner, we noticed little glints of light in the sands. It was dark, so we had no idea of what we were seeing. Were they sand crystals, some creature or something even more mysterious. On our last morning, we saw a few glints. There were pale spiders, almost white, in the sands. It's just as well we stayed on the boardwalk.

Morning sky

Sunrise

Morning glow

The tents around dawn

Mystery solved - spiders!

Another spider

Goodbye to the reef

A morning visitor

Another morning visitor

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