Carnarvon

The highlight of this town is the old Satellite station, whohoo I hear you cry. Used by NASA back in the 60's as a tracking station for the Gemini and Apollo space missions, it also tracked Halley's Comet. It closed back in the late 80's and like many other icons of our past it is now being left to rot.

We walked the length of the one mile jetty at the heritage precinct. The jetty used to accommodate ships that bought supplies and passengers from Perth and allowed the export of wool and livestock from the
region. This area was also known for it's whaling.  Also went to the lighthouse keepers cottage museum which displayed the cottage as it would have been in the 1900's. In the garden of the house was a water pump made in Norwich!

We stayed the night at average hostel which seemed to be full of overseas fruit pickers, due to the fact that the region is well known for its fruit crops. Most seem to get up and go to work at 5.30 and it was the first time we both thought about work and the fact we didn't need to get up.  The feeling felt very good.