DAY 26 – BEYOND HALFWAY – ONLY 23 TO GO

Today was another stunning day. I guess great weather comes with the desert landscape. No rain.

We are now half way, both time wise and location wise. We are at Canarvon tonight which appears to be approximately level with Bundaberg on the east coast so we have completed the bottom half of the continent and have now started on the top half. 

We had a leisurely start to the day and spent what was left of the morning at Ocean Park, not quite Sea World, but it contained a reasonable collection of local marine life including quite an impressive shark display.

We spent a couple of hours in the car this afternoon to get here. We have checked out the local sights, topped up the food supply at Woolworths and are ready to attack the Coral Coast, where we hope to have a whale shark encounter.

One of the main attractions of Canarvon is its historic one mile long jetty. It is no longer used for any commercial purpose other than tourism but is an impressively long structure with a fascinating railway infrastructure which transported goods out to the ships for loading.