Alright, since it’s been a bit busy over the last couple of days for us, I’m adding the last couple of days into one big blog. Try to keep up, I can’t promise I won’t be jumping around all over the place! : )
Tuesday we had a bit more of a look around Quobba Station after saying goodbye to Craig and Dale in the morning. We went and checked out the lighthouse, blowholes, Sydney II Memorial and a couple of other bits of the coastline. We ended up on a beach just South of the actual homestead, where I finally got my whale pictures, though not the jumping out of the water one I was hoping to get! They’re up on the website. Had a bit of a pack up and some lovely slow-cooked lamb shanks, mmm mmmmm!
We left Quobba on Wednesday morning, and headed back into Carnarvon. After a quick our through the town itself with the van in tow, we decided to stay at the Capricorn Caravan Park, mainly because of the fact that their sign out the front said “Your pets are welcome”. Matt figured that they must be a bit of alright if they were accepting of pets, and having been here for two nights already, I must say I do agree with him. The park is nice and clean, dirt roads (it’s no Suncoast!), an undercover pool and it’s far enough off the road that you don’t get all the noise of the big trucks going past at all hours like most of the other caravan parks here would do. We’ve had a nice couple of days here!
Wednesday afternoon We went into town to have a bit of a look around, and ended up washing Jack at the vets, then wandering down the road to a pub right on the water for a drink. There’s a couple of pics up from there on our pictures page. We had a quiet dinner in the caravan after doing some much needed washing!
Yesterday we dropped the car off for a service at Toyota (PS. they’re a bloody rip-off, don’t go to Toyota in Carnarvon if you can avoid it!), then rode our bikes with Jack in tow out to One Mile Jetty. We ended up riding out to as far as you can go on the jetty, it’s under repairs after a couple of fires and some big swells in the last couple of decades. Go there if you get a chance though, apparently the entrance fees are going towards the restoration. You can only go out to about 800m, but when it’s re-opened it’d be pretty cool I reckon. We also went to the light house keepers house museum, the house is all set up with lots of historical stuff, all four rooms plus the laundry bit off the side of the veranda look like they would have in the early 1900’s, pretty interesting. They’ve got the original lighthouse there as well, that used to be up on a wooden structure until white ants came on the scene. I love a good lighthouse, in case you haven’t guessed it, but I’m still yet to actually go inside one! One day, I hope…
We rode back into town after that, had a coffee and finally picked up our parcel from Norma from the Post Office (thank you very much, Australia Post), then headed back to pick up the car. Had some lunch, then headed out to Miaboolya beach for some fishing for Matt, and I took a heap of photos. Jack and Matt were sick of me pretty quickly, but I managed a few sneaky ones of them anyway! : ) We heard about a really good seafood restaurant from some other people camping at Quobba, so got all dressed up and went out to the boat harbour for a seafood feast! The trouble with that was, when we got there, a big group had just arrived and we were turned away. : ( Damn it! After a bit of a drive around, we found a Chinese place back in town that looked alright, apart from the fact that there wasn’t anyone in the restaurant. We went in anyway, and were told that we could have take away, but not eat there as they were closing early since it had been so quiet. So, after the promise of fresh seafood in a restaurant we ended up with take away chinese, luckily it ended up being a pretty good substitution, and I’ve made a reservation for seafood for tonight, so it had better be worth the wait!
Today’s been a bit more of a catch-up day, more washing, and Matt’s doing a few bits and pieces to the car. We’ve got shopping and a few other bits to do in town, and we were going to head out to Chinaman Pool today as well, just to see what it actually is ‘cause I’ve wondered every single time we’ve driven past the sign! Lunch first, then we’ll see I guess.
Tomorrow we’re heading off again, on the way out to Newman for the next adventure with Craig and Dale. We’re off to the fresh food markets tomorrow morning, then on the road to probably Nanutarra tomorrow night. So, it’s packing up everything again tonight and tomorrow morning early-ish so we can get a decent start on the day. We’ll see if that happens, though. : )
Until next time…
PS. for Nick. I was cracking up this morning when, the morning show was playing The Venga Bus, and I’ve had it stuck in my head since then! Thanks for that.
