Quobba Station

Just north of Carnarvon is Quobba Station. At Quobba Station we got see the blow holes.

We also visiited Red Bluff. An impressive bluff and aptly named. The boys deicided it was a good place to catch some waves.

Canarvon

Carnarvon is known to produce 70% of the winter fruit and veg for Western Australia. A mighty feit. The river below, the mighty Gascoyne.....

..... provides enough water for this. How is this so?

Apparently the Gascoyne is an upsidedown river and has plenty of water under the surface.

We also went to stake out One Mile Jetty to see if was a good fishing spot. Decided it was a long way to walk with your fishing gear.

The caravan park we stayed at was great. it had lots of activities to meet other people. We participated in Spud Night and Roast Beef Roll Night. Ethan particpated in Friday craft while mum and dad tended  to the washing. Although you are meant to bring your own craft with you, such as, knitting, patchwork or embroidery, Ethan still particpated. He met some lovely old women and made a necklace with a tassle out of some left over wool. Mitch thought he was using 'rubbish' to make the necklace. We informed him Ethan was recycling.

Carnarvon - Space Museum

Our First Day in Carnarvon was wet. Therefore we were restricted to inside activities and decided to go to the space museum. A great decision as we had a lot of fun and the boys asked if we could go back.

Carnarvon was set up as an OTC (Overland Telecommunications). But later was used in the NASA space program to track shuttles, such as the Apollo 11 mission when man first landed on the moon.

Boys getting ready to blast off on the Apollo 11 mission

Spot the alien

Shuttle tracking device from NASA

The boys also enjoyed trying land a space shuttle and complete a space walk.

Today the Carnarvon OTC is mainly used to track satallites such as the one used for the NBN. However they still have the old dishes used in previous tracking programs.