Cruisin' Aussies: Coral Bay to Carnarvon

After leaving Exmouth on Tuesday 4th October we drove in to have a look at Coral Bay. It's a beautiful beach made up of mostly caravan parks, resorts etc. catering for the tourists. The beach was gorgeous but because it was school holidays the van parks were full and more people about than I guess there are normally.

Coral Bay

Next day we arrived in Carnarvon which has a population of just over 9,000 and a feature of the town is the plantations of bananas and other tropical fruits, all grown with water pumped out of the sand of the Gascoyne River. Carnarvon supplies 70% of W.A. winter vegetable requirements and it's one mile jetty is one of the longest jetties in W.A. The town is situated at the only point of the Australian coastline where the central desert reaches out to the sea. Located 73kms north of Carnarvon are the Blowholes where powerful jets of water are forced with terrific pressure through holes in the rock, sometimes to a height of 20 metres. It was hard to get a photo of something when you don't know when it will appear so the photos don't really show the real story and because it can be dangerous with large waves and the blowhole pressure it's not good to stand too close to the edge!!!!

The Blowholes