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Tom Price Slideshow
Tom Price
Travel Blogs from Tom Price, Australia
Waterfalls and Gorges
4/4/12 At 8:45 am we headed off for another massive travel day to Karijini National Park which is the jewel in the Pilbara crown. We arrived at approx. 2 pm at our first Roadhouse stop in Auski which is 70 kms outside the National Park. ...
Wicked Germans and Other's Parentage
Much excitement when the volunteer discovered that some "Wicked German" (Germans youths in Wicked Camper) has lit a fire AND had came in late and not paid or been allocated the site on which they had camped. First a volunteer surreptiously peering from ...
Exploring Karijin
Today we spent the day exploring Karijini, its fantastic and massive. Loads of massive gorges splitting the saandstone with garden of eden type pools at the bottom. We explored a number of gorges with Lara the guide taking us through paths ...
West Coast Tour Day 8
This morning we were allowed to sleep in a bit, but once on the road, our first stop was "Kalamini Falls." I think I mentioned in a an earlier entry that I expected to see a lot of waterfalls during my time down under. Well, I was apparently right. ...
Final night together...
So after another exhausting day exploring we arrived at the campsite in Tom Price, Damo treated himself to a proper bed in 1 of the dorms whilst the rest of us camped for the final time. There's not a lot in the town a part from some shops etc its more of ...
Rauf auf den Hausberg
... zu. Nach etwas eineinhalb Stunden erreichen wir schliesslich die 4WD Strecke und damit die Spitze. Man hat einen tollen Ausblick auf Tom Price und auf die Rio Tinto Iron Ore Mine. Einige der Arbeiter sind bei uns auf dem Campingplatz einquartiert und wir ...
Funny old town!
... !! Drive around gate, and through more rain to place called Tom Price – quick pint in the Pub/Bookies/Ark with all the brothers, then off to Tom Price Caravan Park. Meet birds from Coral Bay campsite, cook up bacon & eggs on Braai, drink beer. ...
Sunday Mourning
... headed out onto the open road to Broome with differing degrees of success. But more on that later. Before leaving Tom Price, a backwater town that's the launch pad (and, importantly, the refuelling point) for Karijini, the boys insisted that there ...
Tom Price, Karijini National Park
Von Exmouth ist es dann 600km weitergegangen nach Tom Price, eine Minen Stadt in der Mitte der Wueste. Von Tom Price gelangt man in den Karijini National Park. Wir haben in T.P. vor und nach dem N.P. uebernachtet, um uns mit Esswaren einzudecken. Wie ...
Karajini National Park
... a measly $270 a night you can stay in one of their permanent tents with a simple bed and an attached en suite. Despite the price they are apparently pretty busy. We were conned into staying and camping on the promise of a hot shower, and while the water ...
Farewell to the Pilbara
... nursing staff. The women at the hospital are fantastic and very sensible…not to mention fun! I will miss them. While in Tom Price, I’ve managed to put in a fair amount of swimming. For the first time in my life, I’ve ...
Karinjini national park
... in the evening I drove a couple of hundred km and made it to Barradale for the night. The aim was to get to Tom Price and Karijini national park … feckin miles away and this felt like a long drive and the temperatures had definitely risen steeply ...
Der Zweitjob
... gleich nochmal hin um ein paar Nummern aufzuschreiben. Wir rufen bei der ersten an und haben einen Zweitjob fuer das Wochenende. In Tom Price ist eine Art Kirchweih und wir duerfen in einem Imbisswagen arbeiten. Um 17 Uhr sollen wir da sein und werden ...
Karijini national park via Tom Price mining town
Tom Price is a mining village made by the mining company, huge wealth in iron ore and gold and every other person you speak to especially in WA works in the mines. They are HUGE serious boys and toys moment with the massive machines! We then headed to ...
Karajini to Tom Price (Nature to Tonka Toy Town)
... the water pretty quick. A family meeting after this decided that we were all a bit gorged out and so we decided to head to Tom Price. Karajini will have to wait as to do it justice you would need to spend 3-4 days there. (we need to ...
red dirt
Today we all we saw was RED DIRT because we saw some on our feet ,hands and every where on the ground and we also finished the Circular Pool walk and went to Mount Nameless. Circular Pool was full of leaches but had a good waterfall that ...
DAY 80 - SUNDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER – AUSKI ROAD
... way (10 mtrs!!!!) I’m sure everyone at the top was laughing at my antics. Back at the car, we began our trip into Tom Price. I think I had an operator error on the GPS and it directed us to the wrong place for the caravan park, so eventually after ...
Amazing snorkelling, Kangaroo balls, Paradise...
... enhanced sense of humour. Anyway, slept like a baby. Monday We left karagini monday morning and made our way back to the nearest town called Tom Price to search for work. It is a very, very strange town. The whole town is owned by Rio Tinto as there is a ...
Karijini National Park
... made tunnels.. press yourself against cliff walls and slowly move along the wall to get to the other side. Mark had the only photo of us and I wish he would have emailed it to us like he promised. It was EPIC! Please go here if you're ever in Australia! ...
Yet another climb
Another cold night (we heard 4 degrees). We drove the 35odd km, still within the park, to Kalamina Gorge. You walk down a steep set of rock steps to the floor of the gorge. About 300m one way and you come to a tiered waterfall coming out of the cliffs ...
The Birthday Edition
I am slowly getting the hang of things in Tom Price. I've learned the nurses' names, met the frequent flyer patients, and can enter the pool without having to show my pass. I’m happy to report that the nurses at the hospital are absolutely ...
The town, not the man!
Hello from Tom Price – one of the most oddly named towns in Australia! Tom Price is named after, well, Tom Price, the vice-president of a mining company that was instrumental in opening up the Pilbara desert to mining. Tom Price has ...
Zwischen Ausfluegen und Smokos
... Bus abgeholt, der uns erstmal durch die kleine Stadt faehrt und uns etwas zu ihrer 50-jaehrigen Geschichte erzaehlt. Tom Price wurde nur wegen des hier vorkommenden, hochwertigen und sehr reinen Eisenerzes gegruendet. Es ist die hoechstgelegene Stadt in ...
DAY 81 - MONDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER – KARAJINI N
... 4WD track. On the way up I saw a spanner on the side of the road but we kept going. Got to the top and looked at Tom Price which considering the mine is quite a small town. Over the other side we could see some of the workings of the mine which we will ...
Tom Price Mining villige.
I just came on the right time as the long coal train past me. Until 240 Rail hangers or 2.5Km are on the way to Port Hedland and China. It was a interesting village to talk with different people. The mining employee earn to match comparing to the usual ...
Narrow pathways and spider man slithering
60 kms of rough corrugations from our camp spot was Hancock Gorge. From a fairly wide starting point to ever encroaching cliff sides to within a metre where you have to squeeze through or spider walk, this place was magic to walk through. The photos show ...
Mount Bruce, zweithoechster Berg in W.A.
... ist der Mount Bruce oder Punurrunha (wie er in der Aboriginal Sprache heisst) die zweithoechste Erhebung von Western Australia. Unsere Blicke schweifen ueber die wunderschoene Landschaft. Mitten in einem riesigen Tal, umrandet von einigem Gebirge ragt ...
Karijini NP
... return the camper to Perth and they'll waive the $700 charge of location fee. So now just have to get my glasses fixed and our Australia flights sorted out and we'll be set! Not much wildlife today (a few sheep and cowes, one roo on the way in to the ...
