Beachfront Port Hedland
Travel Blogs from Port Hedland
Day 41
... Hedland and white four wheel drives with orange flag flying cars dart around everywhere. Also after 600 kilometres of driving we were greeted by an over zealous, regimented and very formal receptionist. I realise I am 42 but I do not expect or want every sentence spoken to me to end in sir. Do you understand where to park sir? Besides being way over priced we were placed on the most difficult site known to mankind to get into. ...
Is it ever going to stop?
After a glorious day and afternoon on the beach yesterday I feft absolutley fantastic, re-charged and ready to attack the road today. After a last walk with the dogs, I packed up and thought I had better check the transmission liquid...Hello! Can't get the bonnet open. Now honestly is this a joke or what? I fiddled and pulled and pushed but nothing would budge, the latch just wouldn't engage and there was no way of opening it. ...
Don't bother
This town is totally geared to the miners and port. Tourists don't seem to be welcomed. We stayed at South Hedland, which is a newer area to allow for the expansion and accomodation requirements for the workers. Even the CB radio channel that is for caravanners, motor homes, channel 18 is used for the mine sites and we were not welcome traffic on the air waves.
The Caravan park was $44 per night!, only one available that agreed to take our ...
Port Hedland
... 8 locomotives, 682 ore cars and it was 7.353kms. long. You wouldn't have been happy if you had been stopped at the boom gates to allow that train to pass! As a contrast to all the industrial ugliness, a beautiful natural phenomena happens here at Cooke Point (as it also does at Broome), called 'Stairway to the Moon' and we were lucky to be here to see this. This can only happen as a full moon rises up from the ...
Interesting
... secret air base that was set up during the Second World War, it had underground bunkers for the aircraft. The Japanese apparently tried in vain to locate it. It would have been a very rugged place to live.
Leaving Marble Bar we headed to toward the very remote Ruddell River national park. This is what the Sat Phone and Max Tracks were mainly for. Before we entered Ruddell we stayed at Carawine Gorge, which was a beautiful spot just by the ...
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Other places to stay in Port Hedland
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All Seasons Port Hedland
Corner Lukis and McGregor Sts, PO Box 804, Port Hedland | 2 star hotelfrom $271 -
Hospitality Inn Port Hedland
Webster Street, Port Hedland | 3 star hotelfrom $191
