It’s a town in transition. While there are still many 1960s holiday houses built of fibro and permalum and catering for enthusiastic fishermen, there are also large, two storey modern houses designed for family holidays and retirement. It was as recently as 1962 that the government removed 505 hectares from the northwest corner of the Nambung National Park to establish a town. The journey is through typical coastal scrubland (huge white sand dunes separate the road from the coast - this is an excellent opportunity to inspect the dunes and visit the incredibly white beaches.
Cervantes is a small, modern fishing village and holiday destination where the major attractions include The Pinnacles, one of the great geological attractions in the country, and a huge rock lobster processing plant - The Lobster Shack
The Lobster Shack
We’d been really looking forward to visiting the lobster shack since we’d had to cancel the previous excursions becuase of the issues with the mystery bus but we finally got here and boy did we make up for it. We’d had issues with losing the deposit at the RAC caravan site but the managers really came though and sorted that all out, they went above and beyond with even gifting us two free nights which of course gave us more of an excuse to visit the lobster shack for lunch , even though we didn’t need an excuse!Well we had saved ourselves until we reached the coast particularly for seafood and we were never disappointed.
1966 was the year the Thompson family’s story started with David Thompson Senior on the helm of his boat ‘Seatips’.
Back in the 60s living out of a coastal shack settlement 200 kilometres North of Perth, David and his three sons worked on the sea together, fishing every day for the elusive Western Rock Lobster.
Today, these three sons have raised their own sons to become lobster fishermen. That first single boat has now been surpassed by a fleet of modern and highly efficient vessels, which today continue to fish the waters off the coast of Cervantes.
The Cervantes lobster fleet is a collection of approx. 14 modern, fast and efficient boats.Read more
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