Carnarvon is referred to as the 'food bowl' of Western Australia, producing 80% of the state's total fruit and vegetable crops and much of its seafood, with a thriving prawn, scallop, crab and fishing industry.
A place that you can pick up supplies ,purchase fresh fish/oysters and the most important Billy’s sardines from the crab shack on the marina and drive round the fruit loop and visit the #InstaWorthy Cactus Garden along the way. There was one place you could get pet meat but after getting whiff from putting our head in the door we declined especially with a goat outside!?
Paul got speaking to a local business man who explained that this use to be a thriving town before Covid, apparently during the lockdowns there was a increase of funerals and as we all know people were stopped from attending, this obviously didn’t go down very well with mature fishermen and hardworking farmers and the town became unruly , the bottle o got the blamed for this. The federal police visited the owner and insisted that he was making their job more difficult!? WTAF! More like they couldn’t control numbers of people who didn’t like the idea of being controlled and made them look like idiots, so because this continued this guy was targeted, fined for not voting even though he wasn’t registered but apparently the electoral role had registered his name for him? What ,so they could use his vote? This local man who is now taking the establishment to court for damages .
During the unrest the media was instructed to report on this town and basically destroy the reputation.
It’s strange because considering this town provides 80% of the food to the state. it’s like there’s nothing here? One young lad told us that the government won’t invest any infrastructure and we also were told they have a large problem with domestic violence. Within the local school here they have a part were the kids can get food and a safe space, get some sleep if needed , now if that’s not f…ked ? The town is falling apart , the houses/business are boarded up, it’s like a town that has been forgotten or is this deliberate?Why else would such an important food supply be ignored?Read more
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