Thursday, June 10, 2010

We left early today to drive back down the coast to our final stop, Shark Bay and Monkey Mia. Not much to see on the main highway (which is only one lane in each direction) but after turning off to Shark Bay we stopped at Shell Beach, so named because the entire beach is covered with tiny shells and no sand at all.   They are as much as 30 feet deep in places, and at the rear of the beach they've compacted into a solid mass.

Here's a sculpture made up of nothing but these tiny shells.  Years ago they actually constructed buildings from the shells, since they harden and stick together.