Episode: 12
Broadcast: 29th May
Presenter: Lee Steele

Lee continues her adventure up Western Australia’s coral coast.

• Monkey Mia, located about 900km north of Perth, is famous for its bottlenose dolphins that have been coming close to shore for more than fifty years.
• 20 minutes from Monkey Mia is the coastal town, Denham. The town is the gateway for tourists who come to see the dolphins at Monkey Mia because of its all weather airstrip, Shark Bay Airport (also known at times as Denham airport. Denham also has an attractive beach and a jetty popular with those interested in fishing and boating.
• Carnarvon is a beautiful coastal town, rich in activities and also history. North lies the popular Shark Bay world heritage area and to the south lies Ningaloo Reef.
• During the 1960’s, NASA set up a tracking station nearby Carnarvon to support the Gemini and Apollo space programs. Although the station was closed in the mid-1970’s, the foundations of the site remains.