{"id":7962,"date":"2020-12-05T14:59:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T04:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=7962"},"modified":"2020-12-08T05:09:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T19:09:35","slug":"gascoyne-region-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedocaus.com\/blog\/?p=7962","title":{"rendered":"Gascoyne Region, WA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Gascoyne Region in Western Australia was visited as part of the Kimberley\/Pilbara trip in 2015. There are still many images The Doc has never posted, here are some more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the mouth of the Gascoyne River is the township of Carnarvon. NASA built a tracking station at Carnarvon to help with the Gemini and Apollo space missions. The tracking station is now gone but there is a major telecommunications hub still there. The Carnarvon tracking station was also used to track long range missiles from the RAAF Woomera Test Range launched from South Australia into the Indian Ocean over Carnarvon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Doc stayed in the Carnarvon caravan park for a week, touring around the region and having the Patrol serviced for the trip back across Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Doc drove a few hours up the river to the Kennedy Ranges National Park (and nearly came to grief crossing the Gascoyne River). The images are from this trip, plus a quick side trip to the Quobba blowholes near where HMAS Sydney was found off the coast. HMAS Sydney being sunk with all hands lost by a German raider, the Kormoran, disguised as a merchant ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember to click on the image to see the full size. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Video of the Quobba Blow Holes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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