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Tom Price
Travel Blogs from Tom Price, Australia
Tom Price is Very Nice
Definitely Australia's friendliest town from the Russian information centre employee to the dirt stained white galahs that rule the roost. We climbed Mount Nameless in less than half the estimated time leaving us with a quiet afternoon in the ...
Karijini National Park
Being on a tour full of English chavs has made me pine for the days when I'd get on a tour bus and it'd be full of Germans. Almost. This tour is how I imagine being imprisoned in the Big Brother house feels like. Except that sadly, I ...
Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!
... to bring into the National Park... a life jacket, maybe a noodle I hear you say.... no it was a big tyre! The town of Tom Price brought the news that we wouldn't be able to visit the well known Dales Gorge due to a Wildfire. Bruce our tour guide ...
Days 6-9 Karajini National Park
A full days driving to get to the natioanal park from Exmouth, leaving the coast behind us and heading inland into mining territory......... we were staying in an eco campsite and although we had 3 canvas tents for all of us, it was suggested that we ...
A walk in the park.
... Tom Price. On the way we stopped at the fancy new visitor centre for the National Park. It was very informative and interesting. Tom Price is a mining town. Rio Tinto mines basically own the town. Everywhere you look is related to mining either people in ...
Tom Price and Karijini
Wildlife Part II May 6 - 8 Tom Price & Karijini National Park & Millstream Nat Park It was a massive 600km-ish drive to Tom Price. After about 300kms you just wish it was over.... but no, the road goes on - and on - and on. We skipped ...
Meet Tom Price
... heaps of time away from home. If the weather is so bad at home no wonder they are all up here. The drive to Tom Price was very interesting with the scenery and the town itself is very well presented even though it is a mining town. It is ...
karijini national park
wow, war das ein trip! am samstag morgen um viertel nach 6 ging's los. wir hatten ja schliesslich so einige kilometer vor uns. unsere brandneuen nissan navaras hatten zum glueck cd-spieler. so konnten wir uns mit den 10 cds, die ich beim putzen in ...
karinjini national park
drove from coral bay 2 here 2 karinjini national park, nothing about absolute desolate, not even bins, beautiful scenery, went on a day tour, saw georges and beautiful indescribable stuf, i will say it agen but this country is so big! unblevable wen u ...
Karijini National Park
... 6am. We packed up the tents and spent the morning driving towards the Hamersley ranges only stopping for lunch in a mining town called Tom Price which was lets say...boring! Yet more driving after lunch but we came to our resting stop that afternoon ...
KARIJINI NP & THE PILBARA
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 ...
Week 5 - Cape Range to Kurajini National Park
... spot to stop for the night. Day 32 On the road nice and early and only a couple of hundred kilometers drive before we reached Tom Price Tourist Park for the next 2 nights. It was lunch and hot showers all round along with a couple of loads of washing ...
To the top of WA
... the steep and rocky incline, we made it up with plenty of time to spare and were rewarded with spectacular views of the mountains, Tom Price and the open cut mines. After collecting our hard hats and safety glasses we filed onto the tour bus, and headed ...
Days 119 - 121
Tom Price/Hamersley Ranges. The caravan park was at the base of Mt Nameless the highest mountain in WA. Tom Price is also the highest town in WA some 725.51 metres above sea level. We went on the Rio Tinto mine tour which was really good and ...
Tom Price & Karijini National Park
... accommodations in Broome. The next morning we drove to Karijini National Park. We left early as it was a bit of a drive from Tom Price and plus the roads were going to be unsealed (gravel). We decided not to worry about food as we would get ...
Nix Walhai
... zu unserem Diveshop und stellten fest, dass die Tour abgesagt wurde. Nicht so schlimm fanden wir und fuhren schliesslich Richtung Tom Price. Unterwegs war die Landschaft ziemlich karg und die Strasse verlief mehr oder weniger immer gerade aus. Ziemlich ...
Rocks rocks and more rocks...
... large areas of water to cross where the gap between the rocks was just longer than my stride so another leap of faith where the price of failure was wet feet at best. Then we hit more of the narrow rock faces as the gorge got narrower and the walls ...
Rio Tinto Country
... . A truck driver earns around $100K per year and a train driver in excess of $200K. Big money out here, no wonder Julia wants a bigger slice of the profits. After 2 days discovering Tom Price tomorrow we make our trip back to the ...
Het is hier zo leuk...
... was het erg leuk. De was werd van de waslijn gehaald en zo konden we weer op pad. Eerst naar het centrum van Tom Price voor de nodige boodschappen. Daarna op weg naar de volgende bestemming. Onderweg reden we nog langs twee enorme mijntrucks. Deze zijn ...
Tom Price Mine
Left Karijini at about 7AM with the van in tow for a mine tour at Tom Price. We had lunch at Tom price, and as we were leaving, saw a five locomotive train from Parabadoo, and then travelled on toward Exmouth with an overnight stop at House Creek where we ...
Nice Little Mining Town
... area, he was 71 and a bit of a legend around here. It was a big drive from Exmouth and we reached the outskirts of Tom Price at around 5.30pm. Generally we are happy to do the right thing and stay in allocated camp sites but we pulled into a lovely park ...
Karijini National Park
Karijini National Park, A walk to the Circular Pool in Dale's Gorge, then back along the rim of the gorge. After that Michael and Helen went for a refreshing swim across to the waterfall in the fern pool accompanied by the resident black bream. ...
Karijini National Park
Karijini National Park. A day trip on the very corrugated road to Joffre and Knox gorge lookouts. Then a walk in Hancock gorge through the Spider Walk to Kermit's pool, from ther you can see further down the Gorge to parts where climbing gear is ...
Port Hedland to Karijini National Park
After catching some of the industrial sights of Port Hedland in the early morning light it was off to Karijini National Park. After setting up camp at Dale's camping area we went for a walk to Fortescue Falls and the Fern Pool within in Dale’s ...
Drive to Karijini
Day 4 - Fri 24th April Exmouth to Karijini National Park, 650 km We weren't fast getting on the road to Tom Price, but once on it we were putting in the kilometers. Arriving at the unpowered camp site around 5pm we headed straight for a ...
Another Gorge another climb
Up after the sun had well and truly risen. The overnight temperature was cold and we even got out our fleecy jackets at dinner time last night. We had hot porridge for breakfast then set off to walk down in to Circular Pool. There is actually a big long ...