Tourism at Jurien Bay, WA, affected by rotting fish and seaweed...

Vic41 · Guru

Tourism at Jurien Bay, WA, affected by rotting fish and seaweed...

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Interesting Vic - hope it is ok by the time we get there!!!!!!

Vic41 · Guru

jules47 wrote:
Interesting Vic - hope it is ok by the time we get there!!!!!!

I still wouldn't catch fish there though! I prefer Cervantes next coastal town south, cheaper CP if staying in one and quieter....very few shops though from memory...

sufil · Guru

Cervantes is certainly the quieter of the 2 towns, Cervantes has a general store, a takeaway, a road house and Post Office/newsagency/hardware/ fishing gear and a bottle shop. Pub is closed. Jurien has a fairly big shopping centre, IGA,banks etc, a pub. We prefer Cervantes to Jurien ,way quieter!! and the fishing off the jetty is good as is beach fishing. You can launch your boat of the beach at Cervantes too.
The fish kill at Jurien seems to happen every winter on varying scales depending on the weather. They really need to do something about the harbour clogging up with seaweed which is causing the problem. There is bound to be a simple remedy but no one has come up with anything as yet.

_wombat_ · Master (of Mischief)

jules47 wrote:
Interesting Vic - hope it is ok by the time we get there!!!!!!

Jules, don't miss Quabba on the way south.

pauline · Guru

a must see Jules is the Pinnacles Desert....................unbelievable

Cheers

banjo · Senior Member

We spoke with friends here in Shark Bay who came through Jurien several days ago, they said the smell was unbearable so moved on. He said there was literally thousands and thousands of mulies (sardines) littering the beach and rotting away.

Would bring fly infestations too !

Vic41 · Guru

sufil wrote:
Cervantes is certainly the quieter of the 2 towns, Cervantes has a general store, a takeaway, a road house and Post Office/newsagency/hardware/ fishing gear and a bottle shop. Pub is closed. Jurien has a fairly big shopping centre, IGA,banks etc, a pub. We prefer Cervantes to Jurien ,way quieter!! and the fishing off the jetty is good as is beach fishing. You can launch your boat of the beach at Cervantes too.
The fish kill at Jurien seems to happen every winter on varying scales depending on the weather. They really need to do something about the harbour clogging up with seaweed which is causing the problem. There is bound to be a simple remedy but no one has come up with anything as yet.

I think it was Cervantes that had a bowling club with locally caught fish and chips, visitors welcome, the CP owner was on the committee there and also encouraged visitors to go there. (greens had some synthetic and some proper grass last time I was there). You do not have to be a bowler to go there, they just get you to sign the visitors book.

-- Edited by Vic41 on Monday 11th of August 2014 07:47:53 PM

gwb · Senior Member

We are due there in a week or so. All being well it will have cleared by then or we may just go to Cervantes instead. We are currently at Exmouth.
Geoff and Bev