Exmouth to Carnarvon

We moved on to Exmouth and visited the "Big Prawn" and enjoyed the best Prawns in WA, in fact the only place I had found decent fresh Prawns anywhere in our WA travels. After leaving Exmouth we had travelled about 30 kms out, I pulled over to let the dogs out for a run and found we had made a major blue when hooking the car up by leaving the handbrake on, consequently burning the rear brake pads out. ( Live and Learn eh ).

Rolling along we headed for the Blowhole north of Carnarvon stopping at the beachside Caravan park run by the shire and caretaked by the fella whose been there the longest...LOL.

This place was pretty interesting with plenty to see and do . The actual Blowhole was amazing. When the waves come in it forces the water up through the hole with a whoosh and a whistle - it was a very eerie sound.

We saw men fishing with Balloons, yep you read it right (the white spot in the middle of the photo below). They would float their baits out so they skim on top of the water to attract mackeral. While we were watching the fishermen one morning, a whale slid past them below the cliff so we followed it up the coast for about 5 kms taking a few photos.

Unfortunately the hygeine in this park was pathetic, all the toilets were pit toilets in the sand hills and the place smelled like a sewer. The dunes were scattered by small old long term fishermans huts and you felt like you were tresspassing all the time.

From here we drove down to Carnarvon trying to travel slowly to avoid the cold weather we were catching up to. We stopped at a Caravan park that was built in the 50's I reckon with so many trees and little tight spots for tiny 50's style caravans which I had to wriggle a 40ft Bus into, I am good, you all know that, and I think I proved it this time haha...LOL (picture is of Carnarvon at night).

Got sick of going slow and the rain was comming so decided to head down to Geraldton and the farm and wait for the work to start as we were also just spending money we really shouldn't have been at that time.