Tom Price, Australia Travel Blogs

Beautiful Gorges
Oct 31, 2004 (6 photos)

... - and there are some very big bugs, who seem to have no coordination -they just fly right at you! Another thing very noticeable about Australia is litter - the absence of it - even in the parks, where there are very few bins (they want you to take your ...

West Pilbara to Karijini NP - Day 203
Sep 12, 2008 (18 photos)

... awesome Karijini National Park. Only passed through two towns on the road today to reach my final destination, Paraburdoo and Tom Price. Had to do some more dirt track driving this afternoon, drove around 100km on these very bumpy corrugated tracks to ...

inland a bit
Jun 18, 2005 (3 photos)

We were up early but didn't leave....I'm seriously noticing the difference between Canadians & Germasn, that's for sure! They are so layed back & go with the flow & I prefer to have a plan & stick to it, you know? Like, sitting around wasting half the ...

The day of small disasters
Oct 7, 2009 (4 photos)

... than a disaster).  Now the sun was close to setting, but the last 100km on the newly opened stage 2 of the Karratha-Tom Price Road Project rewarded us with truly spectacular scenery as the road descended through the Pilbara hills.  We made it to ...

WA - Wicked Adventure
Jul 25, 2008 (14 photos)

Western Australia is massive. The State covers a third of the Australian continent, which makes it nearly the size of India but is home to only 1.8 million people, most of whom live within 200km of Perth. Basically, big place, very empty. So on our ...

Gorging on gorges
Dec 2, 2008

We've just had the best time messing about in some gorges in this brilliant national park. Some of the walks are stunning, leading you to secluded, deep and cool swimming holes. The walks are also a tad assault course like making you rock climb, hop ...

Ghetto Swags and outdoor camping
Aug 16, 2005

It was just Rachel, Mark and I coming down the coast in Baron Von Brutus, our Toyota land cruiser. Just yesterday morning, we managed to find a ride out of town and hit the road making it to Port Hedland (and Cooke Point) that night. Early to rise the ...

Day 144-146 Karijini National Park
May 12, 2009 (14 photos)

... stay in the National Park and how much sight seeing we will be doing before needing to refuel without having to return to Tom Price. We determine 2 nights at Dales Campground will enable us to see Weano Gorge (53km from Dales) and the Karijini Visitors ...

Karajini National Park
Sep 25, 2006 (7 photos)

We spent the first day in Karajini hiking and swimming in Dales Gorge, the Fern Pool and Forteque Falls. It was a boiling hot day and the hikes were pretty hard going. The water was freezing and definitely cooled us down. We were all shattered at the ...

Karajini NP
Sep 26, 2006 (12 photos)

English - After Exmouth we headed 600kms inland too Karajini National Park. We also had Spotty along for company again for 2 weeks of madness. His first task along the way, making sanga's while on the move, which he executed in a very professional ...

Driving to Karijini National Park
Oct 17, 2009 (6 photos)

... of oncoming vehicles are a seriously problem for motorists. Rhiannon and I came up with a solution to this problem.  Australia, you need to abandon the bovine and embrace the…kangarine.  Kangaroo is a healthy and lean meat, abundant in ...

One of the most beautiful places in Oz - Karijini
Jun 4, 2008

... it's a sacred spiritual place for the aboriginal people and like the rest of the extremely sad aboriginal story in Australia which is still shockingly real, their culture & heritage in Karijini was ignored and denied up until recently. The fact that Mt ...

Day 141-144 Tom Price (via Barradale Rest Area)
May 6, 2009 (7 photos)

... night, with only basic facilities and a pool. We were in need of showers, a laundry and power so we begrudgingly accepted the costs. Tom Price is marketed as the "Oasis of the Pilbara" and the town is quite pretty with lots of grass and trees. Given the ...

deep in the bush...
Jan 21, 2009

here we were visited by many a spider, killer ant and fly, not great fun when you're trying your hardest to eat dinner, but an experience being right deep in the bush and almost sleeping under the stars!

Roadhouse
Nov 17, 2006

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middle of nowhere
Jan 20, 2009

ok so here we really got to see the back of beyond... and shared our campsite with many a bouncy kangaroo... but more later!

Karijini National Park
Sep 7, 2009 (1 photos)

Karijini National Park We had a ball at Karijini. We had to stay in the overflow for one night then went into the Dales Campground. The campground hosts were great. All the kids got jnr Ranger tests to get there Jnr Ranger Patch.We went on a walk in the ...

Karijni National Park
Sep 24, 2005 (10 photos)

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The best yet?
Oct 3, 2009 (24 photos)

You might find it hard to believe, as did we, that we could find a place even more beautiful than anything we had seen before. But find it we did at Karijini National Park where extraordinary gorges of deep red stone miraculously appeared, carved ...

Oooh, feeling dodgy!
Feb 12, 2006 (2 photos)

... on the bus up at the front seat trying to control my urges to throw up or pack my pants. Not a good day. We got into Tom Price around 4:30pm that day. Our rooms looked like porta loos, though there were fine in the inside. All I wanted to do was go to ...

Karijini National Park
Dec 3, 2008 (44 photos)

Der Karijini National Park besteht aus einer faszinierenden Schluchtenlandschaft. Bei den Wanderungen durch die Schluchten, ist man teilweise gezwunngen durch "Pools" zu schwimmen, an Wändern entlang zu klettern (siehe Spiderwalk) oder sich abzuseilen um ...

Tom Price
Jul 15, 2007

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Karijini National Park
May 16, 2009 (22 photos)

... done in the dry season. From Weano we made our way across to what has to be the prettiest and most interesting gorge in Australia - Hancock Gorge. The colours are amazing and if you can steel yourself to get as far as Kermit's Pool it's an experience you ...

Exmouth to Karajini
Sep 25, 2006 (15 photos)

Well went diving with alex and klarka on the saturday, it was so good as we saw so much wild life, including sharks, turtles, manta rays and sting rays. It was time to get back in the camper van with alex and klarka, and head to karajini, a national park ...

Karijini National Park
Jun 19, 2005 (6 photos)

So today we spent the whole day driving slowly on more shitty roads thru Karijini National Park. We saw gorges, gorges, and more gorges! Yup, amzing sites, lookouts where all the gorges & rivers meet, very cool. We even helped out some fellow stranded ...

Karijini National Park
Jun 6, 2007 (3 photos)

... outback although as we did get closer to the national park some mountains started to appear, we stopped in the mining town of Tom price the last of our civilisation before we camp it out in Karijini :) We arrived in Karijini just at sunset and we set ...

KARIJINI NP & THE PILBARA
Sep 16, 2009 (59 photos)

Deux jours dans un cadre fabuleux a faire du "canyoning", marcher et nager dans des gorges avec plus de 100m de roche au dessus de nos tetes et si etroites parfois que nos bras pouvaient toucher les deux bords. Des cracs dans un plateau ont formé un reseau ...

Tom Price
Mar 21, 2008 (10 photos)

... town is situated close to the Karijini National Park which is the real reason I am here. Just after I checked into the Tom Price Tourist Park a massive cyclonic storm hit the town, lasting just 30 minutes, however, dumping more water than I've seen in ...

It's a place, not a bloke
Oct 4, 2009 (4 photos)

... fairly late so we didn't have time for any excursions. We drove into Karijini National Park the next morning, leaving the van at Tom Price. Actually, we drove in and then accidentally drove out the other side – we missed a turn! The first place we ...

Karijini National Park
Aug 29, 2007 (8 photos)

... people heading down the coast we decided to head inland to Karijini National Park to get our first glimpse of some of Australia's Gorges. As the soil got redder we were surrounded by termite mounds and the hills started to ...