16th - 17th Nov Carnarvon

We spend a couple of days in Carnarvon, first day was clean up day, we washed everything in sight from bike, car, clothes, sandshoes, tent.  2nd day we did some sight seeing.  We went out to the historic precinct, One Mile Jetty and Train Museum.  Only trouble was, some clever person had set fire to the jetty a couple of weeks ago and it was closed.  Well up to where the fire was we could still walk out there, which we did and my ever inquisitive Darl takes up a chat with the crane driver, workers there removing the debris in readiness to rebuild.

It is quite a good set up, when open, a tram runs visitors out to the end or you can walk to the end, both at a price ($7 tram $4 walk).  There is a tram kiosk, a Lighthouse museum (closed) and a railway museum which was open so we spent a bit of time here looking around.  The museum also incorporated a sheep shearing history display which was quite interesting.  This pic of jetting taken from the water tank tower.  As you can see the hand rail, straight as a dog's hind leg, actually the rail track looked a bit wobbly too. The jetty was constructed in 1897 and in 1900 was the first port to export livestock.

This is the anchor of the Korean Star a vessel grounded in May 1988 at Cape Cuvier by a tropical cyclone (Herbie), also off Quobba Station coast line.  The rescue of all crew was completed in 45 minutes by flying fox, soon after the vessel broke into two.

Darl likes this place, he has fun playing with all the machinery.  This old timer (a blitz truck with lifting gear) is not going too far, note the steel blocks in the background holding down the roof of the shed.

We went down to the working jetty, all the fishing trawlers are now in for a break during these windy months.   Then off to the Gascoyne Hotel Est 1900 for a quiet drink.   Ended up having a beer with Duncan, what a character - a pommie professional roo shooter, who is leaving tomorrow to go donKEE shooting.  He's done the buffalo tours in NT, he plays the sax, is going to buy a multi million $ home on the canal and loves anything in a skirt, and that was just the fist 5 minutes.  

After lunch we did the Gascoyne Food trail, though only a handful of farms are now open.  But we manage to buy some fresh vegies, they even grow grapes here.  The Gascoyne agricultural area supplies 70 per cent of WA's fruit and vege.  Bananas and mangoes are big here.   We are getting good deals now, stayed at Wintersun van park 3 nights for price of 2 and as we are top tourist members get a further discount. So averages $20 a night.  The amenities are best we have come across, have smell nice in them and piped music.  Something about the trees here, they all seem to have a bit of a lean too.......