Day 85

26 April 2013

Today we were running out of options of things to do in Carnarvon. There is not much to this town and we had pretty much checked out everything. Just outside of the town about 40km north is the Quobba blowholes which we decided rather than sitting around the park we may as well go and have a look at.

On our way and we notice a car pulled to the side of the road with their bonnet up. We drive past, check out what sort of people we are dealing with here and decide they look like they genuinely may need a hand so do a quick u bolt. Ask them if they are ok, do they need a hand and the bloke explained it was something electrical with the brake system (well that's us out on the helping front) and he had called a mechanic and he had given him a few things to do. They thanked us for stopping to check and our good deed for the day was done. As we drove off I heard the lady say "there is still nice people around" which I thought damn straight we are nice people and its just the small minority of idiots that stuff it up for the rest of us!

Arrive at the blowholes to find this sign.....hmmm I think my answer would be no, though I may know a few people where the answer would be different....

There's always this if you get stuck!

You can then pretty much walk wherever you like along the cliff here but in the distance you can see the waves roll in and get bigger and bigger and eventually a big one comes and crashes into the cliff and up onto where you may be walking so take note! You can see from pools of water on the edge where the water is likely to come but we had some close moments!

Rio Tinto mine salt out here, you can see why...just in the little pools of water on the edge was full rock salt! The water is so salty here!

To the right is where the waves crash and shoot up spouts of water from holes in the rocks, looks pretty cool.

There is a campground out here too, which looked ok for $5 a night but was totally packed out for school holidays. There is also a lighthouse up on top of the hill which you can drive around and get a full view of the coastline.

Few wild goats on the way home...

Back to the van and Joel went to visit a guy that we had met down at the jetty and had a look through his motorhome. He then decided to go and have a beer with the Taiwan couple camped out next to us. He was originally asking them about fruit picking but we shouldn't assume that because they leave for work early and come back at lunch time that they must be fruit picking! Victor hates fruit picking, he picked strawberries in Albany and he said never again! Haha they clean caravan park cabins and amenities. They were nice people and even gave us their emails incase we ever want to go to Taiwan!

Carly & Joel

 

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