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Lighthouse Keepers Cottage Museum
The Heritage Precinct is an intriguing place to learn about Carnarvon’s history. The area, once the city’s port, houses the Lighthouse Keepers Cottage Museum, Railway Station Museum and the One Mile Jetty, where locals fish for mulloway; you can either walk or take a vintage tram to the end of the jetty. Although the train from the footbridge to the Heritage Precinct is no longer running, a walking trail runs the 2.5km length of the old tracks.
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OTC Dish
On the outskirts of town the OTC Dish was established by NASA in 1966 as a tracking station for the Gemini and Apollo space missions, and tracked Halley’s Comet in 1986. It was closed in 1987 although you can still wander around the site.
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Outback Coast Safaris
Full-day tours to the Kennedy Range or three-day camping trips to Mt Augustus. Also available for coastal charters.
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Harbourside Café
Fresh seafood and imaginative recipes make for a rewarding dining experience at this casual, sunny restaurant near the water. The Eastern-accented menu includes Asian-spiced calamari, Thai shrimp salad and Carnarvon snapper.
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City Asia Restaurant
This BYO eatery serves a small but tasty lunch buffet of barbecue ribs, duck, roast pork with crackling and other meaty standouts. At night, the chef showcases mostly Vietnamese dishes, with seafood playing a prominent role.
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Gascoyne Growers Market
Carnarvon’s luxuriant plantations provide nearly 70% of the state’s tropical fruits and vegetables. You can get a taste of everyone’s delicious produce at the Gascoyne Growers Market.
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Galleon Café
Among a handful of inviting cafes along Robinson St, Galleon has its local following, lured by big breakfasts, good coffee, sandwiches and light lunches, plus fresh-baked goodies.
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Old Post Office Café
This stylish but unpretentious place has excellent pizzas and pastas as well as lamb, fresh fish, kangaroo and decadent desserts. You can dine on the verandah. Licensed and BYO.
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Carnarvon Pioneer Cemetery
The multicultural Carnarvon Pioneer Cemetery is worth a wander; it’s the final resting place of pioneers from as far away as Afghanistan and China.
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steam train
You can ride a restored steam train along One Mile Jetty, where locals fish for mulloway.
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Pickles Point Seafood & Boatyard (Crab Shack)
Self-catering seafood lovers shouldn’t miss this takeaway stand, with freshly steamed fresh blue crabs and prawns.
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Westcoast Fish & Chips
Get your scrummy seafood takeaway here. While the seafood baskets ($12) are big, we loved our prawn burgers ($7).
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Stockman Safaris
Runs a variety of tours that take in the town and local and regional sites.
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Yallibiddi
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Railway Station Museum
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One Mile Jetty
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Gwoonwardu Mia
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Gascoyne Dash
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Gascoyne Arts, Crafts Growers Market
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Bumbak's
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Yallibiddi Café
Inside Gwoonwardu Mia, this training cafe produces mouth-watering blends of bush tucker and contemporary cuisine. Try the excellent bush tapas with smoked kangaroo, emu and lemon-myrtle chicken or the Thai kangaroo salad. The students progress from here to the fine-dining Yallibiddi.
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Waters Edge
Tuck into some seared scallops with nuoc cham, Tuscan pork belly or local snapper pie out the back of the Carnarvon Hotel. It also has clean, basic rooms.
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Sheridans Café
Funky music accompanies a funky menu with laksa, chilli mussels and banana splits on offer.
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Hacienda Crab Shack
Got an esky? Then fill it full of freshly steamed crabs, prawns, mussels, shucked oysters and fish fillets from this fishmonger.
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