Sunday, September 20, 2009

Carnarvon, WA

We are staying in Carnarvon, a town of 7,000 inhabitants on the Western Australian coast. It is a fruit and vegetable growing district with the most wonderful mango smoothies you have ever tasted.

Joka, Andrew’s Dutch former sister-in-law has been very kind in giving us shelter while we are having Max serviced and just generally enjoying the temporary haven of being in a solid house again for a week.

The weather is quite warm and pleasant here in September. We are whiling away the time before heading south where the climate is still inhospitably cold.

Distances here in WA are vast. It is a large and very under-populated state but it is full of amazing natural beauty. The Pilbara was spectacular. We are trying to decide whether to go to and visit the Kennedy Ranges and Mt Augustus, double the size of Uluru. The distances are the limiting factors.
The photo above is a mural in the town centre depicting the camel trains that used to be popular here in WA. In fact, the first photo above is of Robertson Street, the main thoroughfare in the town and the reason the street was made so unusually wide is to allow the camels to turn around.

The photo above is of Riverview one of the plantations here which also has a very pleasant cafe where we had lunch. The plantation used to be bananas only but now they are a mixture of bananas, mangoes and zucchinis.

A photo of the local produce. Pink grapefruit $2 a bag, avocadoes for $1 each and 1kg of fozen mangoes costing $6. The mangoes are divine and we eat them with yoghurt or ice cream. They are out of season at the moment hence the frozen state but the lose nothing in the process.
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