Koeelkop

I made it to Carnarvon. But before getting there I took a little detour to look for an SKA telescope. The detour was successful even though the telescope was somewhat far away. I also saw a Ludwigs Bustard which was almost as cool as a small radio-telescope (now I sound like a real nerd).

I stayed in the Lord Carvarvon hotel which turned out to have two establishments. One close to dinner. The other close to breakfast. I chose dinner without knowing about the breakfast location thing. Either way they were 2 blocks and 400m apart so not too much of a hack of walking.

It turns out that Carnarvon is not only famous for the SKA but also for Corbelled houses. These are houses built by the early white guys who (for some reason no one will ever understand) came to farm in the Karoo. Once they arrived they found out that it was quite hot in the area and so needed to build something that they could live in that wouldn’t cook them alive. Hence the corbelled house. Who knew. Anyway I found one at the museaum that was closed (along with everything else, except the bars).Read more