On the way to Carnarvon, we again crossed the Tropic of Capricorn - this time going South, and on the other side of the country.
Does that explain, why we are starting to feel a bit cooler?? I think I want to go back to Broome!
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| No jumping pillow at Carnarvon Big 4, but we did score a jumping castle. |
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| The Carnarvon jetty - one mile long. We were going to walk along it except we were too "ikey" to pay the $4.00 each!! I'm quite happy to support community groups, but this seemed a bit ridiculous? |
Carnarvon, was an interesting place, but certainly not a picturesque coastal towns like some along the WA coast. It is a big horticultural area for WA with many year round vegetable and fruit crops growing along the flood plain areas of the Gascoyne River. This all made headlines in Dec 2010, when huge rains caused the river to flood it's banks. Many of these horticultural businesses were badly affected, and lots of other places including Caravan Parks and Fuel Stations etc. The fuel station we went to had only been open for business again for the last month. They had rebuilt the whole kit abnd kaboodle from the ground up.
Carnarvon, whose annual rainfall is 225mm, had 300mm in 48 hours! No wonder it was wet. I hadn't realised the flooding was so widespread, but there were flood warnings from Exmouth to Kalbarri. On looking at a local regional WA paper recently, there is still a lot of discussion about money, levee banks etc.
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| View from lighthouse |
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| Point Quobba Lighthouse |
After wondering whether we could be bothered, and if it was worth the fuel and time to go out there, we were pleased we had. What an spectacular piece of coastline. The relentless power of a large ocean is amazing.
Views of the Blowholes
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| Taking a breath - with a few little bubbles before the next burst of water as the swell surges underneath the rock layer |
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