Population 9,046
Climate
Max temperature 22-40
Min temperature 11-23
Annual rainfall 229mm
Carnarvon is almost as famous for the climate as it is for Bananas. The winters are glorious, although Feburary and March can be very hot. The town is one of the coolest in the North West. Carnarvon is the commercial centre for the rich Gascoyne district. A feature of the town is the luxurious plantation of bananas and other tropical fruits all grown with the aid of water pumped out of the sand of the Gascoyne River. The plantation extends for 16kms along the banks Gascoyne River. Besides Bananas they grow mangoes, beans,tomatoes, melons, grapes, citrus and tropical fruits. Other industries important to the district are wool production, prawns and scallops processing and solar salt extraction. It is interesting to know that,Sir Charles Kingford Smith the illustrious pioneer aviator once conducted a garage and carrier business in the town.
The Carnarvon space and Technology Museum celebrates the little known history of the role Carnarvon playes in the manned space program and in the Australia communication industry. The museum focuses on two parts.The tracking station and the OTC Satellite Earth Station,each station played separate roles in the early space industry. The tracking station was build to support NASA's Gemini,Apollo and Skylab program's and was commissioned ironed in 1964 and was operated for 11 years. At the height of the space program there were 220 people employed here.
We stayed at Capricorn camping ground, wow we are on grass, after so much red dust,and having the grass under one feet, oh what a feeling.. Happy hour at Capricorn was in a tin shed, no not man shed ended up meeting some great people. Will that's all focks till next time
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