Carnarvon
Trip Start
Jul 26, 2006
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Trip End
May 25, 2009
Carnarvon, Australia
Sunday, December 10, 2006
(9 December 2006 to 20 December 2006)
We left Peter and Andrea at Coral Bay and headed to Carnarvon in search of food, Christmas supplies and presents, mail and many errands.
The warm winters and hot summers that Carnarvon enjoys allow for immense tropical fruit growing, primarily bananas, and mangos on the flats of the Gascoyne River. Carnarvon is the largest town in the Gascoyne region.
We gorged ourselves during our stay here as we had not purchased any because of the exorbent prices up til now. Jye would have eaten at least six a day himself, he loves them.
We arranged a replacement LCD TV as we still did not have ours back from the repairer in Karratha, the part keeps going astray. Something really weird is happening there?
We had to wait in a god forsaken caravan park in a god forsaken town which we really did not care for, for far too long waiting for an LCD screen which never showed up.
We were bored at Carnarvon as there was really not that much to do here. We did go for a great drive to Quobba. Quobba was 75 kms west of Carnarvon. The blow holes are at Quobba and unlike Wollongong where they have one big blow hole, Quobba has lots right along the coastline. It was a very steep cliff face right along the rocky ledge looking out into the Indian Oceanb. There were no roped off areas or anywhere to picnic, they really could have capitalized on the tourists but they did not seem to embrace the tourism as much.
You could basically free camp at Quobba. There was an area of beachline that you could camp with no facilities next to what we called donga's, fishermans huts that were left year round til they got there next lot of holidays, they were really ugly and smelled from there makeshift pit toilets. Not somewhere that really turned us on.
We drove up near the homestead and had breakfast as we left the caravan park early and was ready for a cooked feast.
We also went for a drive to Rocky Pool which was a fresh water lake 55 kms east of Carnarvon. You could free camp here also, but it was very hot and we would have had difficulty getting the caravan near the water and we would have had to sit in the sun all day. It was very pretty and refreshing swim though. We had a picnic here.
On our way out of town we drove to the Worlds Communication Tower which was huge, but they had finished their tours in October. Winter months is when everything is open to the many frequent tourists, not during the time we were traveling. Peak season is really winter and not summer, but we were avoiding the crowds and the overcharging as well.
Next stop Monkey Mia Dolphin Resort for Christmas. Can't wait to get there. We heard from Ashley, Leanne, Beau and Jaimee who had already been there or nearly three weeks and they really loved the spot.
