Carnarvon

Heading to Carnarvon we past the Tropic of Capricorn. :(

Carnarvon was such a change of pace to what we were use to.  It was like an oasis in the desert.  Gone were the red hills and the millions of mining trucks and 4wheel drives.  It was a nice change.  The park was fairly quiet which suited us and we chatted to Tamika and Teha and end up sharing our tea with them.  It was a lovely night.










Our first full day was all about visiting Quobba blowholes and taking a swim at the reef.  It  was a nice drive out.  We saw a group of emus and also visited the lighthouse.  The track to the lighthouse was a little rugged and had many washouts.  Some into 1-1.5 metre drops.

The ruggered coast line at Quobba.  Know for killer king waves.  

Quobba blowholes.  Not quiet at spectacular as Kiama
but still and impressive sight.

In the end I was the only one who went snorkelling.
It was amazing in there.  They missed so most amazing
fish.  I was annoyed that the underwater camera was
back in the caravan.

Nigel and the kids sat on the beach and played in the sand.

One of the many rugged tracks to the lighthouse.

Blowholes from the lighthouse!

We visited the One Mile Pier precinct.  We visited the museum and climbed on the old work machinery.  We even saw one of the old life boats from the Kormorant.  The ship that went down after is battle with HMAS Sydney II.  We finally rode the coffee pot train and the pier.  The wind was bitter and the sky was black.  A huge storm brewing but the kids enjoyed the adventure along the jetty.

Yummy ice creams for the journey.

How far to go now Dad?

Almost to the end.  Major works to
refurbish on the agenda also.

All aboard the Kaleb Express!

She's a rickety old thing but the locals are very proud of her. And it supposable has the best fishing ever from it.
Not that we would know.  

One of the Norwest fishing fleets home port. (14 vessels in total waiting for the season to resume)

We tried visiting the OTC dish which was the dish that track the Apollo 11 back into Earth atmosphere after returning from its successful mission to the moon.  It also tracked Haley's Comet.  But to our annoyance it had been shut up and we could not go in.  So pictures from the distance is all we managed and then explained the significance to the kids.  We then continued our drive around the district to visit the food trail.  We went to a strawberry farm and bought the sweet strawberries ever.  The kids polished our huge box in less than two days.  They were so nice we went back for another.  We also visit another farm and bought some home made relish and jams.  Yum Yum!

Julia, Duncan, Dennis and Marion were all at camp with us again and we had some lovely chats and drinks after our days touring.  The kids love the attention they receive from these four and look forward to catching up with them.  We are off to Denham next.  Kids looking forward to seeing the dolphins.