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Tom Price Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tom Price, Australia
Beautiful Gorges
This is a top pick! ... - 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
This is a top pick! ... the 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 ...
Captivating Karijini
This is a top pick! ... numbers and get an understanding for the industry that rules the Pilbara. (I still think a piccolo of Sparkling wouldn't have gone astray!) Tom Price itself is a nice town, well laid out and offers the basic necessities. We lucked in with a team of ...
West Coast Mission: Day 14
We wanted a full day in Karijini so we'd decided to spend tonight at a free camp near Tom Price and get an early start on the park the next day. The trouble was we didn't know how to spend today but I'd developed a habit of handing my map book and a ...
The day of small disasters
... 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
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 ...
Teamprinsloo the movie...
Yo guys! The blog is taking a little longer than expected, so here is a little something I've thrown together. Enjoy! The ...
Tom who? Tom Price...
... and it is clear who spends the most money. Newman is green, massive footie ovals, brand new play parks, buildings, houses etc etc. Tom Price looks like it's poor cousin. Maybe the weather had something to do with it, because in all fairness the palm trees ...
One night in Tom Price...
... arrived in Tom Price later than expected and decided to stay a night here instead of getting into the Karajini NP after dark. Tom Price is a mining town, and certainly not much happening here. We are going to do a “mine tour” to see ...
Aug 18, 2011
Gorging on gorges
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 ...
Everything's Big - at Tom Price
... of humour. The kids didn’t quite know how to take him! Chris has tried to summarise the details: The Tom Price mine commenced production in 1966. It is 5.5km long and 1.5km wide. While the mine’s depth ...
Ghetto Swags and outdoor camping
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
... 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 ...
From gorges to beaches
Conversation of the day:- 'Guess how much this frozen loaf of bread was?' '$5', 'Higher' '$6' 'Higher' 'How much' '$6.80' 'Wow, it had better make yummy sandwiches' Sometimes in remote areas the cost of things is significantly greater than what you ...
Karajini National Park
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
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
... the riverbed was cracked and dusty and there would be cattle wandering aimlessly along it. A word about cattle-farming in Australia. It is a stupid idea. Although, in theory, the outback seems designed for the wanderings and grazing of ...
One of the most beautiful places in Oz - Karijini
... Unsurprisingly 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 ...
Day 141-144 Tom Price (via Barradale Rest Area)
... 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...
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 ...
Trip to Karijini for Easter Break!
For Easter weekend Shane and I decided to go to Karijini National Park since we had 4 days off work. Karijini is seemingly one of the best spots in WA so I was keen to see what it was about. Gorges, waterfalls, swimming...sounds good to me. We set off on ...
Der Karijini Nationalpark in der Pilbara
... dieses Parks zu finden fällt mir schwer. Erstmal solltet ihr wissen, dass der Weg ins Landesinnere, nach Tom Price durch einsames Buschland führt, dreihundertdreiundzwanzig Kilometer lang. Dreihundertdreiundzwanzig Kilometer um zu fragen, warum die ...
Indoor Wildlife Sightings
... with creatures that should really be in a zoo. I have had several indoor wildlife sightings during my time in Tom Price. Once again, the common house frog has made repeat appearances. During the wet season, frogs take over the ...
middle of nowhere
ok so here we really got to see the back of beyond... and shared our campsite with many a bouncy kangaroo... but more ...
RDO
Ja alle 14 Tage sind wir dazu verpflichtet nen Tag frei zu machen ... der so genannte RDO ... regular day off ... n Tag frei hoert sich ja auch eigentlich garnicht so schlecht an ... es sei denn du haengst nen ganzen Tag in unserem Containerdorf rum ... ...
Karajini National Park
We bid Broome a sad goodbye and drove South to Barn Hill for a night. What a great spot! We ended the day fishing on the Eighty Mile Beach as the sun went down. We could easily have stayed a week here but we had to keep moving. We drove on down the ...
Mad Medicine
... time was a remarkable 7min! Amazing team work!). Also, just like my last stint in town, we had a delivery. Tom Price Hospital only does emergency obstetrics (a couple of deliveries a year) but they babies seem to like me. I came ...