Spending a month in Red Bluff was like spending a month in the 1950's, except with better swimwear. There was no internet, phone reception or FM radio and the only method of communication was via the post box. There was a Telstra phone box, but it only took phone cards which were not sold at the Bluff and were also wierdly unobtainable in town, so really it might as well not have existed. Carnarvon could be the only place in Australia where phone cards sell ou...

I will be the first to 'fess up and admit that I had my reservations about spending a month at Red Bluff. It looked a desolate, somewhat harsh place from some of the pictures I had seen and people had told me dire tails of not being able to even swim off the beach because of the giant shore break, constant sharks and spiky reef. Not only that, but it was 120 km from shops, showers and sweeties - a 4 hr round trip for the groceries. However, this spot had enjoy...