Forever Going south Aug 2011

 Coastline in Point Quobba area

 From Barradale we continued south and had a lovely morning tea stop at Minilya where we chatted to several other travellers and holiday makers.

Next stop was the Big smoke " at Carnarvon where we opted to stay in a Caravan park and found a site in the Carnarvon caravan park which was nice and accessible to get a few things done including washing sheets and filling up with water  in preparation for heading off to Point Quobba.



Point Quobba blowholes



 

 After a busy day getting all our things done ,the next morning we did a quick post office check and got another gas bottle filled and then headed off out of town . Unfortunately I guided us up a road that was closed  about 3/4 of the way along. We had hoped it would take us onto the road that goes out ot Point Quobba.

The road was interesting as there were birds' nests in nearly all the telegraph poles and wheel hubs had been attached to the poles in places to encourage them to nest. They were mainly being used by Hobbies, Kestrel s, and crows.

When we got to the blowholes it was rather windy and looked like rain. but what we really enjoyed seeing was a few whales off th e coast. The blowholes were fairly active and  after taking some photos  we then went along the back of the beach to find a camp spot. Unfortunately we had to go almost to the end to find a spot .

We weren't very impressed with the spot as it was very windy and inclined to rain and when we walked over to the beach , it was quite steep and had deep sand so it wasn't nice to walk on .

Point Quobba beach

sunset at the beach

 The next day we set off to get away from the wind and the rain. We thought that we would go inland to Rocky Pool, as we had been told that we could camp there despite the "bible" saying it was a day area only. It seems that all the notices got washed away in the Jan Floods.

 However before we left the Point Quobba area we decided to visit the HMAS Sydney memorial which was on the road to Red Cliffs.

   HMAS Sydney memorial



 Plaque at entrance to memorial