Shame on you Mr Cohen, no blog for 4 days, such lack of attention will not be tolerated. So a 4 day blog follows. 
Having been shoehorned into their backyard by Mark we have settled into Carnarvon. Our hosts are very good having provided all the usual facilities and we have dinner together every night cooked by Mark, while Di is at work, with a little bit of help from Elaine. It is a time for catching up on phone calls as we have been out of range a lot lately, doing jobs (the van has been cleaned, etc) and generally relaxing. When we are moving almost every day we are on the go, breakfast, tidy up, pack up, drive to the site selected probably yesterday, park, unpack, cook, go to bed and freshen up for the next day. 
My morning walk took me down to the fascine and across the 'tramway' bridge. It is 5 years since I last spent time in Carnarvon, although we did stop here on Sue & Brian's boat in 2012. Anyway in the meantime they have done a fantastic job refurbishing the Fascine. It has a new wall, new ridge capping on the wall, new seating, a wide new footpath and the gardens are very well kept. There is also a new playground, a very nice new playground. Along with various other bits & pieces funded by Royalties for Regions. 
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Today Di & Mark took us for drive to Rocky Pool. When Todd was here with me in 2009 we visited this place and it was a nicely grassed picnic area with a healthy river providing the pool. Today it is a rocky wasteland, not quite but certainly no grass, very few trees and not much water. The first 2 issues due to serious flood that occurred a few years back that cleared the area. The floods also wrought havoc around the plantations, destroying dome and causing dome plantation owners to quit....not good. The government is building levies around the town and plantation areas in an effort prevent similar devastation in future. In the meantime there has been very little rain since the last flood which exacerbates the situation. 
Tourism is fairly strong here, there are about 6 caravan parks plus various other accomodation options. But this has also suffered so some effort is being expended to counteract this. One of Carnarvon' s attraction is a huge satellite dish that saw service, amongst other things, during the American space program. It sits on a large, hilltop site that contains other dishes. Thanks to some dedicated volunteers it is being turned into a space museum. They have done a huge amount of work which is about to be opened by one of they astronauts Andy Thomas. It will add to the towns tourist attractions as it really is something to see. We were lucky enough to get a look around today, there is still lots of activity getting it ready for Fridays opening, as Di is taking a school group through next week and on our way out we called in to confirm arrangements.