Day 36 - Thursday, 18 February - Coral Bay (People's Park)

Carnarvon is a nice place with water all around.  Ocean and River Carnarvon.  830 kms long it is very large where it runs into the ocean.

The main street, Robinson Street, is large, too.  40 meters.   It is now a boulevard, but in the early days just one large street.  

Carnarvon was in fact the last station on the camel transport route.  The carts would unload the wool at the Jetty and the camel drivers needed a large street to turn their cart.

The "One Mile Jetty" built in 1897 is 1.493 m long.   Cattle and sheep would walk the pier to be shipped to Fremantle.  That was the beginning of shipping live stock.

We walked it in the early morning.

It needs a bit of repair -

- here and there.

A most interesting Shearers museum.  A shearer would work 4 x 2 hrs a day interrupted with 3 x 2 hrs "smoko".  The shearing took place in this huge hall.

The train museum was closed.

Sitting a window at the "Backpackers", local Daren with friend and son.

Hundreds of termites over a stretch of 10 kms.  Otherwise 275 kms of boring road.

We are happy to find a shaded campsite at "People's Park", where we will stay a couple of nights surrounded by seagulls and beeeaters.