Cruising through Carnarvon

 The west Australian coast north of Perth is a very long, very thinly populated stretch. It reminds of the Northern Territory, where the roads are long, the people spread thin and the distances between places and things are long. In other words, remote northern Australia.

So why does it remind me so much of cruising the Mediterranean?

Because we are cruising north, a day or so in each place, just as in a cruise. And just as in cruising, our visits are short, our experience compressed, our perspective day long. We form our views quickly because we have to...and places get classified as good, bad or indifferent. 

So here is Carnarvon in a day.

It's pretty unprepossessing.

The steak sandwich at the pub is incomparable.

It's still recovering from the cyclone in March...lots of flattened fences and damaged roofs. We are so distant from this that I had to google the cyclone...

There are fish everywhere...in two short sessions, Hugh and I caught 10 jewfish, a large flathead, 3 bream and a flag tail something.

The sunset was magnificent.

The local kids are characters....to his mate, hovering over the crab pot...'just pull the prick up'.

There you go.....the ship leaves tomorrow for Exmouth.