What a lovely town Carnarvon is. Only a 2 night stay but we’ve packed in a visit to the Space and Science museum, snorkelling at the aquarium, visit to the Quobba blowhole, the ‘fruit loop‘ drive and a walk along the Fascine boardwalk. Phew I’m exhausted thinking about it.
08/05/2021 an easy drive from Denham to Carnarvon. As soon as we arrived we visited the Space and Science museum which is on the site of the NASA tracking station operational between 1964 and 1975. I’m glad we went but it’s a shame that the facility was dismantled on closure so the history has been lost.
Carnarvon is protected by 2 islands (Babbage and Whitlock) which we drove across unfortunately, the one mile jetty has been closed due to storm damage.
The next morning (09/05/2021) we drove to the ‘aquarium’, a coral filled lagoon. The lagoon was awash (excuse the pun) with fish (Paul was told a tiger shark was spotted the day before. I said I’d have rather heard that after the snorkel 🤣). There was a strong current so it was a drift snorkel. Beautiful. We forgot to take the go pro…..
Our next stop was the Quobba blowhole. Great fun to watch. Amazing coastline with huge waves.
On the way back to Carnarvon, we drove the ‘fruit loop’, an area of market gardening: bananas, grapes, avos, grapefruit etc etc, in fact everything you can think of. It was good seeing some agriculture as we’d not seen any for a while on our recent travels.
Lastly a walk along the Fascine boardwalk bordering the Gascoyne river estuary which is bursting its banks after the recent rains.
A very short but enjoyable time in Carnarvon to tourist and stock up.
Tomorrow (10/05/2021) we head to the southern end of the Ningaloo reef (Coral bay). We are very excited for the planed diving and snorkelling.
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Wonderful 😀