22nd Nov - Carnarvon

This blog is a short one as it was a bit of a travel day. We left Coral Bay after our snorkelling trip. Not much to see in between today just lots of dirt rocks and scrub. 

Once we arrived we set up camp had our dinner and had an early night. 

We had an slower morning than normal all feeling a bit shattered from the previous few day's battle with the windy weather. We planned to visit the Carnarvon space centre which was opened by Buzz Aldrin. It was a bit gash but nothing like the alien museum in America. It was totally run by volunteers who maintained the museum and the area around it. We checked out the HUGE dishes around the site. The biggest dish was used during the Apollo 11 mission. It was the first to get the signal that it had made orbit and that they had landed. Pretty impressive stuff. There was also a huge laser on the site that was used to locate Australia to the rest of the world as they didn't know where it was! There was loads of other cool space bits and bobs that had been used during various missions and a simulator which simulated the launch into space it was a good laugh but a bit cheesy! 

Once we had a game of space invaders to see who was the best (it was Laura thanks mum) we headed off for Monkey Mia! 

We stopped at the blowholes on route which were really stunning in the late afternoon sun but it was FREEZING with the spray and very very windy so we didn't hang around too long. What we did find was loads of soft salt around the rocks by the pools. 

Another long drive ahead we decided not to stop anywhere else as we would be going back out on the same road. When we got to Monkey Mia the weather sadly was no different. We set up camp and decided to have a BBQ for the evening. We stayed at the only place you can in monkey Mia which is a bit of a resort so it had a Pool hot tubs bars and all sorts, we wondered around to check everything out and Deb and Ian stopped for a drink while Myles and I checked out the jetty and other side of the beach from where we were set up. After a blow along the beach we fought our way back to the bar to meet Deb and Ian. Tonight Ian BBQ'd for us all which was delicious, we had cheese and vegemite sausages, which we all agreed were a bit odd and too flavoursome. This was made up by the BBQ pork belly which was glorious. We had a fight with the awning which was sounding like it would blow away battened down the hatches and got an early night as we would be up to see the Dolphins in the morning. One of our neighbours assured us the wind was supposed to drop tomorrow but we'd heard this story a lot so didn't hold out too much hope!