Quobba Point

Today we ventured on a mini adventure north of Carnarvon to Quobba Point to check out the blowholes and the amazing Indian Ocean coast. The rugged coast just north of Quobba Point has produced a spectacular set of blowholes where the action of the waves produce a water spout some 30 metres or more high.

Indian Ocean rugged coast

Quobba Blowholes

After taking a gazillion photos of the water shooting into the air, while making sure I kept my camera dry we headed down along the road a bit and came to a little shack village at the Blowholes campsite. I would say these very basic shacks are where the locals come on their holidays, but today it looked like a ghost town.

Then we headed north to Quobba Station. It is a working pastoral station with some 80 kms of coastline and runs about 10000 damaras, which are a South African breed of sheep. The coastline along this west coast was nothing short of spectacular. It is one of the only places in Australia where you can do deep sea fishing from the coastline. Although it's on an extremely rugged cliff top and in my opinion a bit dangerous!! I did take myself on a little walk over the rocks to a tiny little beach. To my enjoyment it was covered on lots of shells and heaps of coral. I just couldn't resist and pick up some, but I did limit myself to two.

Onslow to Barradale Roadside Stop

Yesterday while walking along the pretty ordinary beach in Onslow, I found these pretty amazing shells.

I love shell collecting

The drive from Onslow was fairly uneventful, although there were a lot of wild flowers along the edges of the highway. One thing that did get my attention was something I had seen once on the highway back in our early days of our adventure. The RFDS (Royal Flying Doctor Service) is an amazing and essential service in Australia. They travel to many many isolated locations to help with emergencies and also to provide medical, dental etc services to those isolated areas. Any time there is a donation tin for the RFDS I donate as they do a wonderful job. Some locations that don't have an airfield and are unable to turn a field into one have to use the highway as their runway. This is one such location. It is really weird seeing the runway lines painted on the road.

 

RFDS Runway on Highway

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