We called in at Carnarvon to replenish supplies and get information before heading up the peninsula for the Ningaloo reef. However, we were told that the road up the peninsula was closed because cyclone Olwyn was expected to hit Exmouth and Coral Bay the next day and the area was being evacuated.
So we had no option but to sit tight in Carnarvon and wait it out. The Carnarvon space and technology museum was an unexpected point of interest. It was used during the missions to put man on the moon and enabled NASA to continue to track the probes when Houston could not see the moon. Further dishes were erected that enabled the first television pictures to be broadcast between Australia and England. A recording of that historic show was running at the museum.
In the afternoon we took a stroll down one-mile jetty and were amazed to find that the ocean had turned brown with all the silt running down with the normally dry Gascoyne river. This is from rain a few days ago inland and the cyclone hasn’t hit yet!
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