As you might gather we made it to Quobba station. Because the wind was with us we arrived quite early at the turnoff. Knowing that there is no water or food we decided to drive the 25 km on to Carnarvon and check it out first before taking the turnoff to Quobba.
As you do, we looked at the ocean but found it disappointing compared to Coral Bay with a lot of sea grass and brown murky water.
There’s not much appeal to Carnarvon for us other than great fruit and veggies (major produce region) and our stock up for water, groceries and fuel. So onto Quobba station. Enduring 9 grids and a hyper Nossi we get past salt fields.
The grids control much of our driving. We tension as soon as we see a yellow sign and relax when it says “flood way”
When it’s a grid though we conspicuously look at what Nossi does before and after.
The first few times we can get him to lie down but after grid 3 he starts panting and looking for places to hide. So then, when traffic allows (and luckily there’s not that much traffic around), we slow down to walking pace and cut across diagonally to reduce the rumbling of tyres. A trip with 9 grids takes a while that way but who’s in a hurry 🙂
The number of animals here outnumbers the number of cars and we patiently stop to let them pass.
Although we would have scored bonus points with the last one…..(Marjo does not approve of this remark).
First stop is the blowholes about 70 km from Carnarvon where the seawater gets blown high up in the air.
Then down the 9 km of corrugated road we picked up some wood for fire (no collection at the station is allowed) and found a nice spot about 200 meters from the beach. By now a wind had picked up and we didn’t want to be blown all over the place. A beautiful sunset completed our first day.
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