I have spent the past few days out of phone
range, parked amongst the sand dunes, enjoying this spectacular location about
80km North of Carnarvon.
It covers a huge area and is a popular
tourist spot because of the many blow holes along the cliffs. There are lots of people camped in
amongst the dunes – some of them stay for weeks at a time. There is a lovely white sandy beach
where people can swim, snorkel or fish.
I spent my time taking long walks in the morning and relaxing in the
shade in the afternoon.
It is so good to get away from the colder
weather as I head North. It’s
shorts and tee shirt weather from now on with clear blue skys and warm days. The temperature these past
few days has been about 25 degrees through the day dropping down to about 13 at
night.
The turn off to Point Quobba is about 25km
out of Carnarvon, so I have returned to Carnarvon this morning to make a few phone calls, catch up with emails and pay a couple of bills. I'm not sure when I will be in phone range again, so thought it best to grab the opportunity while I can. I'm heading to Port Hedland via Tom Price and I'm not sure if there will be an opportunity to top up with water, so I will fill my tanks before I leave.
It has been a lovely few days apart from the first night when Oscar dug up some old fish heads. Before I realised what he was doing he had eaten some and was rolling over them. The stench was
terrible. I had to pick him up
and take him down to the beach and thoroughly wash him, which was not very easy
in the dark. I managed to dispose
of the fish under a heap of sand well out of reach, but four days later his
breath still smells of dead fish.
I'm looking forward to heading off again. The countryside is so different to that of the East coast. I haven't seen a gum tree since before I reached Denham and as far as the eye can see there is just dry scrubland. It is easy to see how people could become disorientated and lost out here if they ventured off the main highway. It is very unforgiving territory.
View from lookout on way to Carnarvon. You can just see the ocean in the distance.
Camped in amongst the sand dunes:
Beach on other side of sand dunes:
Sunset from top of sand dune.
Campsite from top of sand dune.
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