Carnarvon to Coral Bay

We left the Fascine Lodge at about 9.00 am with the first stop the supermarket to replenish supplies. There was a 4WD in the car park with the same idea, but they were stocking up for a boat trip. In fact, Woolies have special checkout for this, as people buy things by the box full and discard the boxes willy nilly.

On the road again, we drove out of Carnarvon and admired the levee put in by JL around 1964 to protect the town from flooding  when the Gascoyne River was high. Before that, when floods were imminent, the town had to be evacuated. JL had to decide when an evacuation was necessary and the Public Works Dept would give the order. People immediately moved out of town and camped for several days by the main road! 

We stopped for morning tea at Minilya. The river was completely dry.

On the road into Coral Bay, we started seeing the termite mounds. I posed beside one:

Lonely road.

We checked into our studio up on the hill overlooking Coral Bay, had lunch and siesta before hitting the beach. The tide was out, so it was very shallow, but I had my first swim of the trip: