18 July 2014

Off to Carnarvon this morning for a visit. It was a long drive down from the Roadhouse from the night before and really there is not a lot of anything along the way, there are no towns or anything between the two, so there is really nothing I can tell you of the trip other than the usual of the clutch slipping a bit and otherwise running just fine all the way into Carnarvon. Sometimes I think it deals better with the long runs than I do, I need to keep stopping and stretching.

Carnarvon is another town where there seems to be a lot of money being spent tidying up the image and making it a nice and comfortable town for the locals and for the tourists to spend time in. They are certainly doing a great job here and the town centre and water front area are looking just great, it seems like a nice liveable place, quite relaxed.

 There is good landscaping and a well designed one way system to slow the traffic flow

 Visitor centre is in the Civic Centre which has some of the small town must haves, Murals

 Esplanade, is a well landscaped park for the locals to enjoy

They additionally have a "one Mile" jetty in town as well, ok it's not actually in town, it's a bit of a hike out of town, but they have one anyway which is partway through being restored, there is a rail museum out there too and they used many types of locomotive to bring the cargo from the ships along the jetty to town so they have a few items. There is another museum there as well, though I am not sure what it was about as it was closed at the time I was there.

 You can pay to walk the jetty

The other museum

The computer is still playing up and despite finding a computer store I decided that there was no point spending the money to have the computer investigated as it is old and have been able to rough it along thus far with it, it'll keep getting worse I expect though. I decided that I might as well press on as the clutch has been getting a bit worse too and as such it is better to be heading for Perth than hanging about, besides I wanted to visit Monkey Mia so it would be better to be in closer position to get directly there as early as possible in the morning. It really struck me on the way that I really can't quite understand why they call it a coastal highway as really it is no where near the coast, well I guess it is as close as you can get to driving along the coast, but it is a heck of a long way from it, usually about 100 kilometres on average it seems. So basically most of the way from Carnarvon is like this,

Anyway it was into the Overlander Roadhouse for the night, it was challenging to get the pegs into the ground as it was mostly road base.

 Fine style for the night, I don't think.

 It's an unusual set up around a lounge under a central roof, dongas all around.

Tomorrow it's the dolphins...