Cars and Capers in Carnarvon ( I love alliteration in titles, but C is hard)

So I am still catching up on all the adventures, so we are still back in Carnarvon on this blog. Anyway, here is all our Capers in Carnarvon.

So the car and caravan arrived intact in Carnarvon, and we settled down to wait for our car. Meanwhile, we enjoyed relaxing after all our dramas! The car was getting fixed at a car mechanic that had been recommended to us, and we were staying in a caravan park close to town.

We all got a nice brown tan at Exmouth, and I even managed to get a watch mark where I wasn't tanned.

We were all fervently hoping and praying that the car could be fixed easily and cheaply. And.......

It was fixed quickly (but not so cheaply!!

It was eventually found to be an electrical fault, and we had it back within 3 days as soon as we got it to Carnarvon. Will go down in history as the quickest our car ever got fixed...

It was comforting, but, as there was someone else in the caravan park who had also broken down. Dad had a chat to him in the reception of the car mechanic.

After getting the car back, we explored Carnarvon, visiting the jetty, parks, and the shops. On the weekend we did the big trip!

As we had booked in for a week (weekly discount) we had to leave on Sunday. So, on Satruday, we headed out to Point Quobba.

We had originally planned to camp there on the way down, but the best laid plans always go astray, and we never made it there.

But, we still managed to visit the coast along there. We had heard all about Red Bluff, and as it was apparently great surfing we also planned to go there to have a surf.

So we set off nice and early and enjoyed the drive in. We had heard that the blowholes were really good, but we could not see them, and instead were awed at the force of these mighty waves pounding against the sheer cliff faces.

After that we had a look at Point Quobba Campground (which had plenty of space and old buildings. I wonder what it used to be?), we headed out to Red bluff to (hopefully) do some surfing.

The road out to Red Bluff was a corrugated and sandy road. The bouncing rattled us all up a bit, especially when we stopped at a lookout (thankfully before going all the way) and saw there was no waves. Such a great ending to be being bounced and jolted around. We then turned around and jolted our way back.

We did, luckily, find a good surfing spot where the boys hopped in for a surf. Dad and I opted out, mainly due to the sharp, shallow reefy bottom.

I sat on top of the car and took photos of the boys as they surfed. There was another surfer out there too at the start, and I kept on taking photos of him. Don't know why, as he was a better surfer. Must of thought the boys were really, really good or something.

After the surf, we headed back to Point Quobba Campground for a late lunch, and then headed home.

So now you have caught up on Carnarvon, we will next move to Monkey  Mia and Denham. Luckily we stopped for a while, otherwise I will be permanently behind for a month for the rest of the trip......

Oh, and the SD card that we had all our photos on isn't working, and there is  now no photos. I'm not very happy, as we lost all the way from Carnarvon to Geraldton.....Any suggestions on how to rescue the photoes??