Quiet days at Point Quobba

From Carnarvon we drove along our ill-fated ‘short cut’ to Point Quobba – a “free camp” which was $11 per night and right on the coast. Thanks to a wonderful morning at the Carnarvon Farmers Market and our horrible short cut, we got there rather late and we worried about finding a spot. Point Quobba has lots of dilapidated shacks and camp spots and not a lot of big rig space. We ended up detaching the trailer and squishing into the driveway of a ‘rarely used’ shack. As our luck would have it, we had both grown sons of the owner and some family friends with the key ALL turn up during our 3 days there!

Point Quobba is a sheltered lagoon with amazing snorkeling. It’s the start of the Ningaloo Reef, and has a sheltered little beach great for kids. The lagoon is great to snorkel in, but at low tide the coral is really shallow (like 20cm – hard to float over) and at high tide, the lagoon is almost overcome and the current is rather strong. Thanks to my sister-in-law’s warnings, I am fully aware of the dangers of this ocean and I was worried about being washed out of the lagoon to the (un-life guarded) open sea. It was perfect in between though. The children and I went snorkeling the first day and I quickly convinced Dunc that he had to join us. He willingly changed into his bathers and entered the water to knee deep. He rather less willingly got up to thigh deep and eventually joined us fully submerged and snorkeling. “It was COOOOLD!” is his excuse.