Carnarvon WA. June 2 2018
A West Australian sized 'step' up the road takes us to Carnarvon, a town with two vastly differing pasts: the 1897 1 mile long wharf and attendant railway, steam and bullock machinery, and the 1960s high technology space tracking stations. The original light part of the 1897 light house. It used to sit atop a wooden tower, but the termites ate that. It may have sat then on top of the metal structure shown below, but which now holds a battery operated light. Carnarvon WA Lighthouse. . Carnarvon WA Heritage precinct, railway station. Carnarvon WA One mile wharf, now closed due to safety issues. Carnarvon WA Railway carriages. Carnarvon WA In 1964, NASA came to town and built themselves a tracking station for their planned Apollo missions. Sadly there is nothing left of the original station, but today, the OTC (Overseas Telecommunications Corporation) Satellite Earth Station, opened in 1967 as an adjunct to the tracking station, houses a fine collection of te...