21 October - One Mile Jetty, Fascine and School Day

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One Mile Jetty, Fascine and School Day

This morning we had a school morning, and Hayden had a PM benchmark reading test via Facetime.  After lunch we went to One Mile Jetty with the plan of exploring the lighthouse keeper’s museum, railway museum and fishing from the jetty.
https://www.carnarvon.org.au/carnarvon/one-mile-jetty 
The lighthouse keeper’s museum was closed and looked quite disappointing from what we could see, the railway museum was not impressive and the jetty was very run down.  Overall, disappointing; although the coastline is very pretty.  Next we headed to the aboriginal cultural centre, but it appears to have closed.  We drove along the Fascine to see where the trawlers come in, and then took Hayden to the playground again.  He now has blisters on his hands from using the flying fox so much.
 https://www.australiascoralcoast.com/destination/carnarvon/fascine
https://www.waholidayguide.com.au/the-fascine

19 October - School Day

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School Day

Today was a school work day – not many to go now, he is making great progress.  After school we went to the Fascine (waterfront in Carnarvon) where Hayden enjoyed a great play in the playground.  It was a terrific playground with things for all age groups, as well as a long flying fox.
https://www.australiascoralcoast.com/destination/carnarvon/fascine

We also took a walk to Whitlock Island along the old tramway.
https://www.carnarvon.org.au/see-do/see-do-carnarvon-separator/walking-cycling
https://www.railtrails.org.au/trail-descriptions/western-australia?view=trail&id=148

14 September - Windjana National Park; Gibb River Road

14 September 2016 – 187 123

Windjana National Park; Gibb River Road

This morning we once again said goodbye to the Turnbull’s, and headed to Windjana National Park.  
https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/park/windjana-gorge
We drove through our first water crossing actually on the Gibb River Road (not a side road and not a puddle, an actual creek). The road from the Gibb River Road to the national park was impressively rough, cut up from the recent rain.  We set up camp and had lunch. As we approached the campground Hayden and Drew both exclaimed that the external gorge walls looked like the Gates to Mordore. Our first walk for the afternoon was the Time Walk combined with the Gorge Walk.  https://trailswa.com.au/trails/time-walk-windjana-gorge/print The time walk gave a close up view of the coral reef structure in the gorge walls and impression fossils were visible in many places. At the end of this we walked over to the main waterhole where there were a very large number of freshwater crocodiles.  There were also some researchers catching and then releasing the crocodiles. The Gorge Walk was hot and unpleasant with no particular views – I would not recommend this one, it would be bottom of my list of walks for the holiday.  Walking back along the track Hayden was felled by a Flying Fox that flew straight into the back of his head.  The other walk we did was the Savannah Walk which was a short walk and fairly pretty.  The campground is lovely, my recommendations about the walks would be do the Time Walk and have a look at the freshwater crocodiles in the waterhole and then return to camp.

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