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Monday 21st Sunday 27th Sept.
Set off from the free camp early to avoid the strong winds. The drive south to Carnarvon is on great roads, the scenery is the same scrub for 100’s of k’s .
Carnarvon is a far bigger town than I had expected, 4 caravan parks, plenty of shops and lots of market gardens along side of the Gasgoyne River, which rarely flows but the water that feeds the market gardens comes from bores sunk from under the river.
We book into C/park for 2 nights and check out the tourist stuff. The one mile jetty was a great view from on top of the water tower, the jetty was used to service ships in years long ago. The old train and lighthouse keeper’s quarters was all interesting stuff.
A tour of the food trail to the market gardens had us stocked with veges and fruit.
On Wednesday as we were leaving town we called into the fishing port and bought fresh prawns, scallops and fish, … well I cant catch any and need a seafood fix.
Only 50k south of Carnarvon and then 10k of rough road we found Bush Bay, free camp for a day, a week, a month, and some seem to call this place home.
Pick a camp spot about 5 metres from the water, set up camp in the sunny hot weather … but the bloody wind, so strong straight off the water. Fished for an hour or before high tide, spoke to some other campers and they get fish all the time but the winds lately have stopped them using their boats and only small stuff in the wading waters.
Stunning seafood for dinner.
Thursday, planned for a short drive to a camp on the way to Denham (Monkey Mia) but with a rare tail wind, kept driving and driving… way to far, did 300k and ended up in Denham. Booked 2 nights in Caravan Park overlooking Shark Bay.
Walked the streets, still way to windy to even think of putting the boat in. Watched the Grand Final Footy and did bugga all else. School Hols and all parks are booked full, we were going to stay over at Monkey Mia, 25k away but all full there so we got one more night at Denham C/P Sunday, took a drive to Monkey Mia, checked out feeding the dolphins and Maz had a yacht trip to pearl farm and see the Dolphins, Dugongs and turtles.
Was perfect weather for her trip, sunny and hot.
Drove back past Denham 40k south to a freecamp up high overlooking Shark Bay, stunning views.
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