Beach Sculptures & Sealions on Labour Day Weekend

Saturday morning - time for some art. We jumped on our bikes and headed along the coast to Cottesloe, where the annual Sculpture by the Sea Exhibition was being held. The seventy or so sculptures were arranged along the beach and gardens around the Indiana Tea House - a great setting. You could pick up a couple of two meter granite screws for $28,000 or if that's not your thing then maybe three mosaic glass, ceramic and fibreglass heads on a boat for $145,000. The winner was a  squished yellow dumpster truck made of EVA foam mats. Sadly there was nothing in our budget.

Screwing by the Sea

Ship of Fools

Dump

That afternoon we set off to Green Head for the Labour day weekend. We had stayed there on Boxing Day last year and the owner of the B&B, Edith had arranged for us to dive with her son Andrew. Before we reached Green Head we stopped at the Pinnacles.  Rupan has captured some fantastic images of the sun setting behind the limestone rock formations.

On the Sunday we set off to the lagoon by Fisherman's Islands with Edith and Andrew and spent the morning diving. The lagoon is very shallow and there was quite a lot of current and surge. The area is not well known and so the hard corals healthy and there are plenty of fish. Andrew managed to catch 11 crayfish for our dinner that night!

Yummy Crays

In the Afternoon, Edith recommended that we take a look at Stockyard Gully Caves, so armed with some borrowed torches we set off in Bluey on a remote 4WD track. We thought that we were in the middle of no-where but when we arrived at the caves it was a struggle to park as there were so many visitors for the bank holiday weekend!

Monday's morning dive was much more calm and enjoyable and to top it all off the last 20 minutes of the dive was spent with a very friendly and inquisitive sealion. She was playing with our bubbles, nibbling Rupan's hair and exploring all the camera equipment - amazing!

Tasty!

That's an unusual hat!

I can blow bubbles too!

Hermit Crab