The Coffee Pot Train in Carnarvon

After we had been to Kennedy Range National Park we drove back to Carnarvon to see the Coffee Pot Train at One Mile Wharf.  The train travels along the wharf.

The warning sign about the fish called Happy Moments which has poisonous spines

One Mile Jetty was built over the sand so that ships could unload their cargo from deep water.  When the train was moving the wharf was so creaky and the wood that holds up the railway tracks was rotten in lots of places.  At the end of the wharf we saw people catching bream. 

Information on One Mile Jetty

On a rail car in the One Mile Jetty Museum

After lunch we went to the Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum.  When we went in Pop, Nan and I went into a full size simulator model of the command space module for the Apollo missions.  We all had to crawl into the module and lay down on our backs with our legs bent up.  This is how the astronauts would have been when they were in the module.  It really felt like you were in a real rocket going up to space.

Inside the simulator space module

The controls and video screen where we could watch our launch into space

What Earth looks like from outer space

Life size model of a space capsule

I didn't do well on this test where you had to not touch the wire with a wire ring

The OTC Satellite Earth Station

It looks like Pop has a cool satellite dish on his motorhome

After we went in the simulator I saw all the old tracking station equipment used and movies on space exploration.  Carnarvon’s tracking station was built to support some of NASA’s Gemini, Apollo and Skylab space programs and was the largest manned space flight tracking station outside the United States of America.  It was also the last station to communicate with the space capsules leaving the earth orbit and the last in contact before splashdown.  This was my favourite museum!