Monday 20th October – Pt Bruboodjoo to Quobba Station – Fine Sunny Clear Skies

We travelled south to Carnarvon refuelled, back tracked 17 klms  and then took the turnoff and travelled  60 klms north to Quobba.  There is no through coastal road and the highway travels inland. We plan to travel further north on this road tomorrow to Red Bluff (camping the two nights at Quobba) and return to see Carnarvon township on our way south.

We are just about on the tropic of Capricorn which equates with Rockhampton.  The weather is a lot cooler – it seems that way to us because we have been enjoying the 30’s.

 

This was our last view of Bruboodjoo Point as we left this morning.  It was the first time we had actually seen the sign.  There were so many tracks it was like spaghetti junction.

 

 

 

 

 

The country side changed and it was good bye to spinifex and back to the mulga.  We still had the sand dunes.

 

 

 

 

We stopped at the rest area of Miliyana for a coffee.  We had received a reply from our enquiry about booking a site at Augusta for three weeks over Christmas.  We have been very lucky to secure a river front site on the  (Hardy Inlet) Blackwood River at the Turner Park.    The site only just became available as they had made some changes and gave it to us due to the length of booking.  We certainly were lucky as the park is booked out. We are now planning and booking our sites for the school holiday period.

We drove to the first service station outside Carnarvon to fill up and then back north up to Quobba Station.

This was a really flash service centre with “Outback” badge on it.  It was really nicely landscaped. 

 

 

 

  Yellow Kangaroo Paws growing like they can no where else.  They certainly grow so much better in their native environment.

 

 

 

 

 

We looked at the Blowholes campsites and bypassed them due to their exposure to the wind and drove another 10 klms to camp at Quobba Station.

  

 

 

 

 

 

The water is a very dark blue and you can see that it is very deep close to shore.  Dangerous too, you can feel the power being reverberated in the rocks you are standing on.  Lots of warnings about “King Waves”.  A rock fisherman died in 2000 after being engulfed by a large wave.  The wind was blowing that hard, I had trouble trying to stabilize the camera to get a balance horizon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We stopped at the memorial for HMAS Sydney which was sunk with all hands (645) during WW2.  The memorial was paid for by Harold Adams who served on the ship from 1939 and was left ashore on the 11 November 1941 due to illness and the ship was sunk 150 klms west of here on the 19 November.  He was the only surviving crew member because he didn’t sail.

 

 

We are tucked in under the trees next to the shearers quarters – out of the wind.  The station is right on the beach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the view looking south from the station beach.   That is a small headland cliff.  Surprising how high the waves reach.

 

 

 

 

 

Nice amenity block at the station.

 

 

 

 

 

 

They run 10,000 of these South African sheep breed – self shedding of fleece,  for meat.  They come in an amazing array of colours.