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Carnarvon Slideshow
Carnarvon
Travel Blogs from Carnarvon, Australia
A nice walk in the park
... get a credit card that I left at the BP in Roma. We arrived just before dark in time to watch an outside slide show about Carnarvon Gorge. This is truly a beautiful spot 100 km north of Injune. We spent two days here - the first day we ...
Carnarvon
... storms. The 350km drive north to Carnarvon is dull, grey and nothing to write home about. Arriving in Carnarvon, things brighten up a bit, but only slightly. It's a outback working town, based around the various plantations ...
Fruit/Veg and Fishing
... (no longer in use now) It was used for the moon landing way back in the 60s and it was the first contact that Australia had that telecasted the man landing on the moon. Many Americans lived here for sometime running the place. they have now all left of ...
Fresh fruit and vegies
The drive down to Canarvon was only 300km, a mere snippet of the drives we had thus far been having to endure, and it was delightful especially as we realised that there would not be another long, long drive again - not on this part of the journey at ...
Carnarvon - one mile jetty
... public at pier 103 (about half way). After the closure number of town visitors decreased significantly. Shortly after that a new Carnarvon Jetty Restoration Group was formed and they raised $70000. Next $400000 was granted by the Transport Department and ...
Grosser Supermarkt, relaxen :)
Zivilisation! Und n grosser Supermarkt *freu* Haben die Lichter an Auto repariert und einfach mal 2 Tage entspannt. Viel ist in Carnarvon nicht los, ist aber ganz nett gelegen. Muendet mal wieder n Fluss ins Meer :) Die 2. Nacht waren wir auf nem ...
The Coral Coast, WA
... and a sudoku or two! Obviously as this was a rest area there was no electricity so it was an early night for us! 21st September - Carnarvon Another early start on the road – 6.20 am but we only had about 300kms to go. We were booked into the ...
At the bottom of the Ningaloo Reef
... bouncers! Lots of turtles and sharks in the sea too - counted about 14 small reef sharks from a look-out point. W. Australia absolutely beautiful coastline - lots of beaches, very hot & very dry in places - esp this sheep station where ...
When Road Trains Crash, Australia Stops!
... , we slowed down as we could see something in the road, which is a rarity when you are driving along the highway in Western Australia as you don't general see anything for miles apart from the odd road kill etc. Luke stopped and jumped out to take a ...
Carnarvon Gorge
We've had three wonderful days here at Carnarvon Gorge. For our first walk though Que decided he wanted to see everything, so 22km later we staggered back to the motorhome very sore and tired, but we had seen some amazing sights. We saw ...
ich will sommer!!! darum ziehe ich nach norden
... mit den stromatoliten, 3,5 mio. jahre alte lebensform, die sauerstoff produziert, gesehen. nachmittags hat er mich dann in carnarvon abgesetzt, ca. 7000 einwohner, wo ich einige wochen arbeiten wollte. dieser ort war sooo schrecklich. das hostel war ein ...
Everyday Life - Part II Cooking with Gas
Cooking and camping There is huge amount on the internet about campground/campfire cooking. Everyone has a different set of requirements - it depends on where you're going, how many, how you're travelling. Again, if you've stumbled across this blog, ...
Day 3 - Monkey Mia to Carnavon
Monkey Mia is famous for the dolphins that come to the beach every morning to be fed - it is defintley a tourist trap but it was fun to see the dolphins so close, they came right up to the beach in only knee deep water so you could see them really well. ...
Everyday Life Part One
... we left New Zealand we did a lot of trawling through the internet to see what other people had to say about their travels around Australia. There is a heap of great info and all sorts of people have written about all sorts of topics. I found a lot ...
Incredible scenery but incredibly difficult to get
... spent some time clambering the rocks for a safe vantage point. The blow holes /Quabba/Red Bluff turn off is about 30km north of Carnarvon. Surfing places Tony was keen to check out. The Blow Holes was sign posted from the main road. But from then on it ...
Carnarvon Gorge
... - 23 degrees No expenses today Monday, 3rd September, 2007 (written by Suzanne) Carnarvon Gorge - Boolimba Bluff Now, you would have thought that after yesterday's activities that I would have crashed last ...
Carnarvon
... grow a huge variety of produce including mangos, bananas, grapes, tomatoes, pumpkin, melons, avocado and corn. During winter, Carnarvon produces 70% of W.A.’s vegetables. (Pic 6) An interesting drive out of town took us to the Bibbawarra borehole ...
WA - windy always!
... the day for more wonderful views; we were going to track first west to the Exmouth area and then south to our destination of Carnarvon. Straight away after take-off, the views started appearing, one after another…. It was a lot to take in. The ...
Packing
... is the travelogue for you. Very soon, you will be reading about my journey from the unknown outback town of Carnarvon, Western Australia- to the frozen wilderness and barren landscapes of ALASKA! Just joking, to the frozen state of Toronto. Right now, ...
EVeryday Life - Part III Flies and more Flies
Flies, Head Nets and Hats Boredom Alert - more moaning about flies!!! If you plan on travelling through WA, you DEFINITELY need a fly/mozzie head net. Don't get the "fly" nets as these have quite big holes. As someone who sprays their house twice a ...
Just love equipment failure
... this has failed before we knew what we needed to do to get the awning wound in. As a result it was decided to head straight to Carnarvon to get some gear to replace the drive motor on the awning. At the Capricorn Park Jeff, the manager, lend us a 8' step ...
In Pursuit of Fruit
... for grape trimming, but even that wasn't due to start for another few weeks. So my master plan of working on a plantation in Carnarvon hauling bananas around was a bust due to the fruit not being ready. Things were looking bad and I was so poor I was ...
Carnarvon
... ist fuer uns nur ein Zwischenstopp am Weg nach Norden. Der Ort ist die "Hauptstadt" des Gemuese- und Obstanbaus in Western Australia. Der Ort ist ganz nett, aber um 18:00 Uhr werden die Gehsteige hochgeklappt. Da hat nahezu alles geschlossen und wie ...
Coral Bay - Carnarvon
... Wasser herausgepresst, und es schiesst in meterhohen Fontaenen in die Hoehe. Dieses Naturschauspiel war die 100 km Umweg durchaus wert, aber somit wurde es unrealistisch noch bis Monkey Mia zu kommen, und so uebernachteten wir noch einmal in Carnarvon. ...
Don't always trust fellow tourists opinons...
... was getting slightly bogged on the way out the following day (mainly due to the fact we had been too lazy to let down the tyres). Carnarvon was a small town, but they did have a second hand book shop, so I was able to swap all the books I had read for ...
Whats going on?
So...in Carnarvon ging es los mit den Fragen Job suchen? Oder mit den Jungs ab auf die dirty Road? Habe n Job gefunden, aber nur 20 Stunden in nem Massagecenter, also auch nicht wirklich zum Geld sparen... Und naja, Ihr seht es daran, das es keine Fotos ...
Carnarvon
... concrete on local houses, but there's still so much of it still there. From there was the long drive to Coral Bay stopping in Carnarvon for shopping as Coral Bay is expensive and at the Tropic of Capricorn sign on the way. After dinner we sat up with our ...