After a scrumptious lunch of fish and chips from the local Carnarvon takeaway the Elphicks headed to the Tammy and Russell's favourite camping spot "The Blowholes". This great little camp spot is located on Quobba Station at the southern end of the Ningaloo reef - about 70kms from Carnarvon. While we waited for the others to arrive we stopped to look at the blowholes although on this day the swell was down and they were quite tame.
Tammy and Russell arrived with their quad bike and fishing boat and we set up camp at the end of the beach shacks. They were great little shacks - and for $500 a year you can have one of your own. After we set up camp Craig, Brett and Russell headed out on the boat but due to wind and rough seas Craig spent most of the time with his head over the side. All that was caught was one spangled emperor, still a sought after table fish.
That night we sat around camp and took Russell's quad bike for a few joy rides.
We viewed the wreckage of the prawn trawler that foundered on the reef about 3 years ago. The prawn trawler was worth over a million dollars and rumor has it that the crew were not very coherent when they came to grief. Quobba is also home to the wreckage of the Kormoran and the HMAS Sydney from the battle that occurred in 1941. We also saw some amazing fossils which had embedded themselves into the rocks.
Adam showing us his balancing skills
I had one of my first snorkels at the lagoon and what an amazing place to learn. The water was very shallow but the fish and coral where everywhere and the colours of the fish were amazing. If you looked carefully you could see some big groper under the rocks and the Rippons saw a reef shark.
We took a drive up to the lighthouse to look at the views below and on our way back we stopped at the blowholes which this time were raging.
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