Exmouth to Broome is a long haul of around 1,400 km but we decided to try to make it in three days of driving, rather than four as originally planned, so we could have an extra day snorkelling in the Indian Ocean at Turquoise Bay on the shores of Cape Range National Park (where to our delight we had a great sighting of an echidna (see photo album)).  We aimed to stay in Karratha on the first night.  This was our longest single haul so far at around 600 ...

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Just a stopover - see Broome blog in due course for details.

Carnarvon is a nice wee town which sits at the mouth of the Gascoyne River.  There’s not an awful lot to do here if like us you don’t fish, bit it’s a good place to stop to fill up with fuel and foodstuffs. It’s also a good place to stop for repairs – especially in our case replacement windscreens.  Carnarvon does, however, have a bonny setting and is famous for its mile long jetty, built in the late 1800s and which is real...

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