Monday 24th August - Carnarvon

After leaving Coral Bay we headed to Carnarvon. Carnarvon is the commercial centre for the rich Gascoyne District. It is famous for it's luxurious plantations of bananas and other tropical fruits, however, due to the cyclone that hit the area in March this year there are no bananas and the vegetation is rebuilding after being flattened. We drove around the agricultural farms and did manage to pick up some very fresh veges and some frozen mango cheeks, just delicious.

If you are going to stay at a caravan park in Carnarvon you have to stay at Wintersun Caravan Park, it is the best. They have something happening each day if you want to get involved. Seeing we arrived later in the day we were enticed to join in the spud night at $5 a head. What was that all about? Well we rocked up to a massive enclosed area and doing a quick calculation there would have been over 200 people from the park all ready for the spud night. What was a spud night? - well you pay $5 and line up for a large boiled potato with mince and all the trimmings, so much food. It was another scene from the movie Cocoon. This Park really has its finger on the pulse, they have different activities each day and a lawn bowls afternoon as they have a full bowling green at the back of the Park.

While we were in town we did the touristy 'Coffee Pot' Train which is an old tram that runs out into the Indian Ocean on the historical one mile jetty that was built in 1897.

   The lovely old very looooong jetty is in drastic need of repair and it is so good that the locals are rallying to see that it is fixed as there is not a lot more to Carnarvon that would attract the traveller. We stayed only one night.