Cape Range National Park - Ningaloo Reef Marine Park Part 1

This was one of the places in Australia that we both really wanted to visit and so we were excited at being able to spend a week or so camping here.
At the peak time you have to queue for hours as there is limited camping spots available in the park but the great thing being at this time of the year is that we could just roll up at 10am and get the campground  of our choice. There are many in the park, but as always some are better than others and we had been told to stay at Osprey Bay if we could.
The Ningaloo Marine Park is part of the World Hertiage area and is Australia's largest fringing reef system stretching 300 kms.
It hosts an array of marine life including whale sharks ( the worlds largest fish) but we were too late to see them but saw many turtles ,rays and of course coral and wonderful colourful fish.

Osprey Bay This was about 30 mts from our caravan

The wonderful thing is that you can snorkel straight off the beach as in one place in the park the reef is only 320mtrs out from the shore.
The colour of the water in Osprey is beautiful, it really is shades of turquoise and we just sat sometimes and soaked up the view. We were able to camp here for just $13.20 per night but there were only toilets and no showers or water so you had to make your water last as long as possible if you wished to stay for awhile.

Our amazing view

The reef was about 500 mtrs from the beach