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Tom Price Slideshow
Tom Price
Travel Blogs from Tom Price, Australia
dalwalinu to Tom Price
... also saw Weano gorge and looked at Handrail pool and then we went to Hankock gorge. After the two last gorges we traveled to tom price about 76 km.Yesterday we went to hamersly gorge. It was different from the others because of the rock formation.When we ...
Karijini National Park
... dump trucks which cost 4.5 million each. The trains that carry the ore are 230 carriages long and are hauled with three locomotives. The Tom Price mine can fill four of these trains per day as they head to Dampier Port which can process 16 of these train ...
From Ocean to Outback!
... , so we manage to arrange for a site over the phone and are able to have some dinner at the local tavern before heading to Tom Price and our caravan site. This is mining country, there are several iron ore mines in the area and lots of Ute's with flashing ...
Our time at Tom Price
... 1400 homes f 747 metres above sea level, making it the highest town in Western Australia – no tsunami’s here! f Tom Price is in the Shire of Ashburton which is the second largest shire in the country. Now ...
Adventure Gorging
Day 7 - Mon 27th April Karijini National Park, Gorges between Camp Grounds Mark and I had an awesome day of adventures with Bridie and a Kiwi couple. Starting from the Class 6 descent at Knox we could not do yesterday we took a 10m rock slide ...
A seriously big snake
... . Although there's not much out here but mining the rolling hills, plateaus and the magic colours make this part of outback Australia much more memorable than many others. Particularly if you encounter a snake of about 2 meters on the roadside and you are ...
Durch die Schluchten Karijinis
Nach fast einem Monat haben wir es nun endlich mal geschafft unseren freien Tag fuer eine Tour in den Karijini Nationalpark zu nutzen. Wir fahren schon um 8 Uhr los, denn es sind etwas 100 km bis zum Visitor Center. Wir fahren durch eine schoene ...
Karijini...beats anything we have ever experienced
... ) stopped and offered to call someone, but we were ok, though he did advise us that a spare tyre may cost $400 in Tom Price. OOOOUUUUUCCCCCHHHHHH! He carries 4 spares on this specific road due to the sharp rocks. He reckons it wouldn't matter what you did ...
Iron
Who is Tom Price? he was an aussie surveyor who discovered vast deposits of iron ore in the middle of nowhere. The mining company owns this town and everyone in it. Odd place, the town is quite mediteranean in atmosphere but it is several hours along ...
Day 52-53 Tom Price moving mountains
... . Good fun. Here's another fact I'll bet you didn't know. WA's tallest mountain is located at Tom Price and is called Mt Nameless. Western Australia must be the only place in the world not to name its tallest geographic feature, or to name it ...
Gorgeous Gorges
... quickly towel down and order a more acceptable driving speed, to the drivers and other passengers disappointment. We drove into Tom Price and immediately noticed the greenery of the place amidst the surrounding red mountains full of iron ore. We suspect ...
80 Mile Beach
Again a long day of driving to get us to Port Hedland (nother scary mining town) and then the beautiful 80 mile beach and the best showers in the world - to be fair any shower would be classed as the best in the world after not having had one for 3 ...
24 hours in Tom Price
... ; Tom Price We were heading to Tom Price for one reason really, to take a tour of the huge Rio Tinto iron ore mine there. Tom Price is yet another Australian town that has developed on the back of mining, and of the 5000 people that now live in Tom ...
Dales Gorge, Karijini
Day 5 - Sat 25th April Karijini National Park, Dales Camp Ground Time was not of interest today as we headed down to Fortescue Falls for an early morning dip from Dales Camp Ground. I had had a terrible nights sleep and could hear the dingo's howl ...
Tom Price heisst uns herzlich Willkommen
... kittet so ein Gummizeug rein. Aufpumpen und fertig. Hat keine 20 Minuten gedauert und wir konnten weiter fahren. In Tom Price angekommen, finden wir gleich den Caravanpark und sidn gespannt welche Art von Vorstellungsgespraech auf uns wartet. Wir hatten ...
Various Gorges at Karijini
Day 6 - Sun 26th April Karijini National Park, Gorges between Camp Grounds We set off early from Dales Camp to Kalamina Gorge (Picture 01+). We ran out of Milk the day before so it was breakfast bars and fruit while we wondered up the gorge. The ...
Adventure Tour
There were 8 on the adventure tour. All were female and came from Australia, France, Germany, Japan and England. We met at 7.30am to get kitted out with our wetsuits, helmets, shoes and paddles. The tour started at Knox Gorge and a ...
This is Not how life should be lived
... a few things, mainly to fill our water jerry cans, so back we went. Two hours later, we finally officially left the town of Tom Price and headed to Karijini National Park. Not far out of town we had to stop at a railway crossing for an extremely long ...
It begins...
... season yet, so we had Kermit’s Pool to ourselves and we shared handrail pool with 2 other couples, one of which was our neighbour and we’d already met them – a couple not much older than us, 7 months into a trip around Australia. Nice. ...
Benzin und solche Sachen...
... selten haben wir uns so gefreut eine Tankstelle zu sehen :-) Nachdem wir getankt hatten, konnten wir das letzte Stück nach Tom Price noch geniessen :-) hier sind wir jetzt in der Nähe des Karijini Nationalparks - unser (hoffentlich) nächstes ...
Friendly birds abound
... back to the other side again. We passed Mt Wells which was very pretty with all the green spinifex around it. We arrived at Tom Price around 4pm having travelled approximately 400 klms and Peter scored a new aerial as we lost the one on the front of the ...
Back to Exmouth
Day 8 - Tue 28th April Karijini National Park to Exmouth via Tom Price, 650 km First a fresh water dip in Handrail Pool, Weano Gorge. Then restocking supplies in Tom Price we took the long road to Exmouth at high speed. On the way I failed to ...
In Love With the Karijini
... , yet again! At Circular Pool we had lunch and the most exciting thing happened…Paul’s front tooth finally fell out! Yes Dee, Tom Price will be the place where Paul lost that tooth that hung by a thread for the whole week!! But Paul had it all ...
Karijini
We decided to leave Tom Price and head for Karijini but not before we did the RIO Tinto Tom Price iron ore mine tour. Kids enjoyed seeing the large trucks like Uncle Paul drives and the big open cut mine. We then had lunch and headed to Karijini about a ...
National Parks at last
Head out to the east and pulled into to Karijini National Park. The place is run by "conservation volunteers" so there are “helpful pensioners” everywhere. The Visitors Centre is a huge structure featuring lots of Sheet Steel Plate with the ...
The Stunning Pilbara
... so this all helps shape our view of the country. The next morning we spent a good 90 seconds touring the entirety of Tom Price before heading out to Karijini National Park. Despite being well prepared with the evening’s dinner in the ...
Days 48–51 Karijini National Park
... camp until near midnight and Neil had stayed up packing up all he could as we had to leave early in the morning to make it to Tom Price by 9:30am for a mine tour we had booked. We didn’t have enough fuel to make another trip to the other side of the ...