A new travelogue details a snorkelling experience at Turquoise Bay, located within the Cape Range National Park. The report describes being carried by a natural slipstream over healthy coral gardens, surrounded by rivers of tropical fish, with sightings of green turtles and groupers.
Turquoise Bay is widely regarded as one of Western Australia's best beaches, known for its bone-white sand and shallow, clear water where the coral reef begins just metres from the shore. Local advice for the drift snorkel is to enter at the southern end, allow the current to carry the swimmer, and exit well before the northern sandbar to avoid being swept out to sea.
The author, a return visitor to Ningaloo, expressed relief at the reef's strong condition and enjoyed the opportunity to share the experience with a first-time visitor. The positive report comes as a welcome indication of the region's natural resilience and recovery.