Carnarvon Revisited

We had planned to spend 2 days getting from Karajini National Park to Carnarvon, but in the end we decided that, rather than spending a boring night in a roadhouse in the middle of nowhere (the only town we passed through the whole way was not much more than 100km after we started - there's a lot of empty space in this part of Australia), we would just bite the bullet and drive the almost 800km in one day. While this may not sound a lot for ordinary driving, when you are towing a van at less than 100kph, plus the first 30km was on an unmade dirt road, it added up to a very big day. However, we were pleased to have done it, and given we had already spent several days in Carnarvon a few weeks ago and exhausted the town's limited tourist potential, we had 3 days to recover.

Most of the 3 days we have spent cleaning the car and caravan inside and out. The red Pilbara dust was everywhere, and the caravan looked a shocker after the dirt road, so we have scrubbed and scrubbed. Umpteen buckets of water and a lot of elbow grease later both car and caravan are gleaming, and we are feeling ready to start heading south down the coast again.