WA - Carnarvon

Carnarvon  - seems like a good place to restock as it has a Woolies and a BWS so most needs are taken care of.

We booked into the Top Tourist van park to do a few things - laundry, refill the van water tanks, wash the car and the van etc. It is nice at times to have decent facilities to use. Anyway, that's what we did for the afternoon before kicking back with a restful evening. I was knackered after washing both the car and the van!

Next day we took a drive to the Quobba Coast to check out the blowholes and the cliffs etc along that way. Despite a moderate swell, the blowholes were operating impressively and it made for a decent picture or two.

We chatted to some people out there and then spotted a pack of sharks rounding up a school of bait fish into a ball and then slashing through them. It was in impressive sight and we just stood transfixed for a while until we realised that the same drama was being enacted in anther two spots within easy sight. It seems like the sharks were having a ball. (bad pun eh?)

We drove on up the track north, checking out the various vantage points until it was lunchtime when we pulled over and ate lunch watchng yet another pack of sharks slashing through a bait ball when Karen had a minor fit, pointing out to the ocean. She had seen a whale breach!  We kept loking out there and sure enough the whale came back up and then it leapt right out of the water again. This is early in the year for whales so we were very lucky indeed.

It made our day.

On the way back we called into the space tracking station and loked around the museum and exhibits. Much more interesting than you'd possibly imagine. Loved it! 

That evening though, we had news that the cyclone that had been brewing in the Indian Ocean was formed and intensified into a category 4 cyclone and was heading for the coast between Exmouth and Coral Bay. Guess where we were heading off to the next day?

So, discretion being the beter part of valour, we decided to stay another day to wait out the cyclone. We didn't want to be sitting in a caravan with cyclonic winds battering us if we could be here in Carnarvon and a whole heap safer. 

We'll see what happens.

Well the cyclone turned out to be much less of a problem than we expected. Just some strong gusts through the night. No worse than having beans for dinner! So we packed up and headed off to Coral Bay.

Pictures to follow soon!