Beachfront Port Hedland

... lovely. But that wasn’t all Eighty Mile Beach had in store for us… As it got dark, we saw some silhouettes appearing out of the water. We had arrived in perfect time for turtle breeding season. These were 60-70cm long 'flat’ turtles and we were lucky enough to be able to watch them drag themselves slowly up the beach, dig their holes and lay their eggs. It was an amazing sight, even more so because we hadn’t been ...

The next day, we were up early and off to Port Hedland - not a major tourist destination, but the home of a conveniently placed couch-surfing host, which would allow us to break up an otherwise looong journey to Broome. Some hours, hundreds of kilometres of nothingness and several ice lollies later, we knew we were approaching our destination since the landscape became depressingly industrial, with heat-buckled train tracks and vast depots the dominant ...

Hey everyone,<br><br>So I decided after much thought to do a little travel blog again.<br>After all what is a holiday without one!<br><br>9.20am yesterday Brent, Mum and I flew from Melbourne to Perth. We then had a 6 hour stop over in Perth. We caught a taxi into the centre of Perth. After walking around for 45 mins we had conquered Perth! Sorry it's not quite that small but almost. We actually thought that it ...

We arrived in the town of Port Hedland, we were thinking about staying for work but I am hoping that we dont as this town is a red dusty dirty windy iron ore town. This is an Iron Ore and salt producing town. The red dust is everywhere the houses in Port Hedland are all red roofed and if you leave your car for to long it is covered in the stuff. There is 2 parts to this town you have the Port side and then the South Hedland side. The south side was built many years ago as there was ...

We left Barn Hill and, on the way to Port Hedland, stopped to look at Eighty Mile Beach. This is another of the pristine beaches they have up here. There were HEAPS of people fishing and a guy caught a black-tipped reef shark (I think that's what Matt said!) just as we wandered down onto the beach. It&#8217;s not a beach that you can swim at though, because of the sharks.<br><br>Once we got to Port Hedland, we thought we ...

For the tourist, Port Hedland exists mainly as the first point in striking distance down the west coast from Broome. For the Australian economy it represents the departure point for vast quantities of mineral commodities. Port Hedland as a town exists to service BHP Billiton Iron Ore. <br><br>We went on the obligatory tour of the processing plant, where we were bombarded with impressively big facts and figures. You can explore these for ...

We've travelled over 3,000kms in our trusty Rabbit Punch van! We've stayed at a few great places along the way which we will fill you in on, when we have a more stable internet connection.<br><br>We are mainly camping in remote sites near the beach and waking up to a view of the sea from within the van. The weather has been hot, hot, hot! If you stand outside for too long ie when we are making our lunch at the back of the van....it burns your legs!<br><br>We have been ...

... before and never had any trouble, coz although they are dirt tracks, they are well compacted and usually flat. Well, not this one! Sure, it was solid, but so many 4x4's had driven over it at speed, that they had created ripples in the road, which I presume off-roaders just skim over, but we felt every last bump and jolt! What probably takes four-wheel-drives 5 minutes to drive, took us ...

... per his driving job) i take over and continue to sing. We are in the peak season of this area - the amount of caravans and campers is amazing.<br><br>We pulled into Port Hedland for a look - its the busiest port in Australia and loads 4 ships (220,000 tonne) a day with iron ore and salt. Its a lot like Newcastle but much more industrial and the town itself is very ...

... in Woolworths before settling at Pardoo Cattle Station. There were a few spots of rain so we decided to put tents up. Thankfully, I was sharing with an experienced camper, Leigh from Sydney, who knew how to put a tent up. The heavens opened during the night so it was a good decision. Before bed we ate around a proper camp fire which was lovely.<br><br>