Blogs from Carnarvon, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 5

We lasted about an hour in Carnarvon (which looked like Skegness), and decided to keep moving a few kms north to Quobba Station, a sheep ranch right on the coast at the southern tip of Ningaloo Reef. We followed a rough bumpy track along the coast, with the sea crashing into sandstone cliffs on our left. The campsite was in the sand dunes behind a rocky beach. We had about an hour of daylight left to explore the beach. Windswept, rugged. Big shells. Clams the size of rugby balls washed up. Big rocks. Big waves breaking over the reef. Big sky. Everything just big, like we'd been shrunk to half our size. (Which is pretty small for Paula). No people about, just us and the big sun setting over the big Indian Ocean. The next day ... read more

24-10-09 Well today we are having an easy day, Den went to get a Battery box & leads to put the 2nd box under the bed. The Gold Coast V8 car races were on & Den had a lovely avo watching the races & I had a nana nap. We had tea & I caught up on my blag & diary, after watching TV we went to bed. 25-10-09 Today we went to get some fresh vegies from the “Veggie Trail” & we could not believe that the marketer’s get their water from a dry looking Gascoyne River (no water in it at all on the surface). But what happens the water seeps through the sand on the river & stores water below & they use pumps to draw the water out by bores (amazing). There ... read more

19-10-09 On the road again !!! By 8am & into a big head wind , this must be one of the windiest parts of the WA coast. We stopped at Minilya Roadhouse & filled up with Gas ($1.05) we did not need petrol which was $1.66 litre. We pushed on literally pushing the wind aside, we turned off 24km’s north of Carnarvon & went the 49km’s to Point Quobba campsite. We had travelled 250 km’s today. Well I did not know what to expect of this place, I knew by lots of reports it was windy, but as at this time of the year it is very hot, the cool wind was a nice change. I would not like to be here in winter though, I would imagine it would be freezing. We drove in & ... read more

Hi all We arrived at Carnarvon Big 4 Caravan Park on Sunday to a special welcome. We'd sent our Big 4 passport to Melbourne a month ago, as we'd qualified for a special reward as we had 50 different camping ground stamps. We had arranged for it to be mailed back to us at Carnarvon. We were the first to get 50 different stamps, and expected a T shirt, but we also got a $150 fuel voucher, flowers and a bottle of good red wine! Our photos were taken, so I guess we might appear on their rewards website. Carnarvon is a surprise after a boring drive with nothing much to see from Coral Bay. There is lots of market gardening and cropping - bananas, mango, avocardo, tomatoes, capsicums, corn etc are growing alongside the dry ... read more

One of the sights that we are now getting used to is the various road kill that litters the highway. The majority is probably done by the roadtrains as, when they are thundering down they don’t really have time to stop when animals such as a kangaroo, joey sheep wallaby or dingo (the list goes on) go running or jumping out in front. It still turns my stomach thinking about all the dead animals we saw by the side of the road, some very fresh indeed! Canarvon is the only point on Australia’s coastline where the central desert reaches out to the sea. There are numerous plantations here, all growing a variety of produce, most notably bananas for export, as well as avocadoes, tomatoes, courgettes and mangoes. Canarvon supplies 70% of western Australia winter vegetable requirements, ... read more