The Gascoyne

Saturday 6th June
We were on our way out of Denham by 8am this morning. The track took us around 100km South to get back onto the Northwest Coastal Highway where we headed North once again towards the Gascoyne region. The landscape was very much non existent with large flat areas more or less covered with low shrubs.

By midday we arrived in Carnarvon, drove around town until we got a car (+caravan) park near the Supermarket, stocked up with supplies, had a couple of sangers for lunch, and got back on the road. Heading out of Carnarvon was quite different with large Banana, Bean and other vegetable and tropical fruit plantations.

The area around Carnarvon is arid but the plantations pump from the Gascoyne River - beats me how they grow plants as the Gascoyne River, like so many others, had no water when we crossed it.

The other notable observation was the abundance of Roadkill in the Gascoyne - a dead animal every 20mt, and sometimes even a dead cow.
At around quarter past three in the afternoon we crossed latitude 23°26'22" (see photo), otherwise known as the Tropic of Capricorn, which is the most southerly latitude at which the sun can appear directly overhead at noon. It is also the official start of the Tropics.
After a total travel distance of 583km for the day We arrived at Coral Bay around 4pm, set up camp and went for a quick walk to a lookout where we enjoyed one of those nice sunsets over the Indian Ocean (see photo).