About an hour later we got a phone call back that they were safe and sound at Monkey Mia where indeed their car had broken down.
The morning was very humid with water settling on every surface outside - it reminded me a little bit of Darwin. We got on the road by 9:30 to backtrack south to the Overlander roadhouse where we got back onto the main highway to travel north until we reached Carnarvon, the fuit and veg capital of W.A. if not the whole of Australia.
We saw road crews working to fix up roads around Carnarvon that were damaged in the recent floods. The whole area looks very green and tropical with lots of palm trees around the place.
Unfortunately our caravan site didn't give us enough room so we had to ask for a different site which they were only too happy to provide. This caravan park in the middle of town is quite novel with grass on all sites - that's very rare in this part of the country.
After lunch we went out exploring around town and to see their main attraction the One Mile Jetty, a very long jetty indeed. So long in fact that they have built a tramway to take people and goods out to the end, at least it used to when it was operational. The reason for the long jetty is the flat angle of the beaches around here.
We dropped Ilse off at the supermarket for some shopping and continued onto the local tackle shop to get the good oil on local fishing, and a get a few more essential fishing bits.
With shopping done we returned back to the caravan to enjoy last nights' whiting and garfish which turned out excellent. No night fishing tonight, I need a good rest!
Here is the link to today's travel map.
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