<< Afternoon at Ningaloo Reef

09/06/24 - Yardie Creek at Dawn

Having avoided an early morning flight the previous day, we went on a dawn hike at Yardie Creek to compensate. The winds howled all night keeping us nice and cool in our tent. We woke before dawn and joined our guides at the main lodge for the shuttle ride to Yardie Creek. A lot of the pictures we took were blurred by low light and long exposure times. There was no way we were lugging a tripod. While our biological clocks were drifting towards local time, our computer clocks were horribly confused.

As the twilight brightened we headed out along the canyon. The rocks were once coral, part of the reef, so we had to watch our footing. We were promised rock wallabies, and we got rock wallabies. They are early risers. We saw bats resting in trees and a variety of hard to photograph birds. We clambered up and down clumsily, but thanks to our guides avoided injury, though we now know what it sounds like when a wallaby suppresses a laugh.


Early light

The sand bar at the mouth of Yardie Creek

A deep canyon

Bats

Rising light



Still early

Across the creek

The canyon wall


A cave?

A cave with somebody home


Rock wallabies







Seen flying

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