Day 46 – Carnarvon to Denham

Coral Coast Caravan park was a terrific one – best showers we have had – like your own ensuite. They run on an honesty system – choose your own site, put money in an envelope and leave it in a box! Lovely place.

Off to have a look around Carnavon before we left, so we drove out to the One Mile Jetty, and had a walk around the area. There is a little train that runs out the length of the jetty too.

 

The kids requested a play at the terrific park on the foreshore, so we spent a bit of time there, having a swing, a go on the flying fox (yes all of us!), and Brendan joined Lily on the swing.

We then drove out along the river and called in at a couple of plantations, the best one being near the Big 4 Caravan park. The kids enjoyed a choc covered mango icecream, while I tried the black sapote (choc custard tropical fruit) one. We also stocked up on some veges and fruit leathers.

 

Then it was off towards Denham. We tried to book into the Monkey Mia caravan park yesterday, but it is booked out for ages – a very popular place. Anyway, we scored one of the last sites in Denham, some 20km away and a beautiful little seaside town.

On the way into Denham, we called in at Hamelins Pool to look at the stomatalites, living marine organisms that are organised in little dark brown/black stacks. They are supposed to be 3, 500 million years old! Apparently scientists from all over the world come to study them.

 

The wildflowers around here are lovely, so I couldn’t help sharing some more pics of those.

 

 

Nearby was the old shell quarry. Metres and metres of tiny white cockell shells have cemented themselves together over many years, and years ago they were actually sawn into blocks and used to build churches and buildings in the area.

We then called in at Shelly Beach, where there is no sound, just miles and miles of tiny white cockell shells. A very interesting area.

We arrived at the Denham Seaside Tourist Village late in the afternoon, and checked in and did a couple of loads of washing before settling down to dinner. After our terrible day yesterday, it was nice to get out and do some sightseeing today.