Well back in Hedland to pick up a few bits and peices that our wonderful friends stored away for us while we were picking up our caravan. We were only there for a few days. We spent the time repacking our caravan, catching up with some friends, fixing our houses and staying out of the hot weather. Our air cond got its first real test and I am pl...

Port Hedland Port Hedland was about 450km from Tom Price and is just a stopover on the way to Broome. Accommodation was hard to find and backpackers were unavailable. I managed to get a motel on the foreshore at the Port, for an excessive $165 per room. It's nothing special, but comfortable and has air conditioning! Everything is overpriced here...

Despite having stayed in Port Hedland for nearly a week there isn't really much to say about it. We had a bit of a look around town and did the BHP Iron Ore tour (for free) which was interesting enough when you get it for free, and following from the Tom Price tour we got a pretty full snap shot of the Iron Ore mining process. Other than that we...

After exhausting the many highlights of Broome we headed south once again down the Great Northern Highway. Our next stop was to be Exmouth, which is well over a thousand kms from Broome and therefore required a nights stop-over somewhere. With little options available we reluctantly settled for Port Hedland. Even the locals said this place was a...

After leaving Karratha we popped into Port Hedland to get some cash and have a loo break.... there wasnt much to do here so we agreed to carry on driving to a free rest stop.

Having been told the 'Stairway to the Moon' appeared at 8.39pm we were down on the beach, in the dark at 8.30pm. Someone, approached us out of the dark, French, and asked us if we were there for the big event! Yes, and we agreed times. Well we waited, and waited, and no moon. At last, at 9.30pm Gra looked to his left and there was a Red line. Ye...

Today was my last day at work at the hotel, and I was glad to be done. I tossed my hated work shoes in the garbage at 2:05 and whooped. "That's it! I am done with this place!" Which, now that I think on it, might've been a bit of rubbing it in the faces of those who are there permanently, whose jobs and lives this place is. But we all have our o...

So we headed back up to the coast now, but oh what a stop. Port Hedland has to be the dirtiest place ever! It's this ugly mining town so huge machines & buildings & factories everywhere and red dust all over everything! It's so ugly & dirty! We managed to find a cute little backpackers for Pia and that was the ony upside to this place. Even the ...

Having all the 'included' activities cancelled during the first 3 days of the tour because of the rain, it was a relief that today we were able to visit the Karrajini National Park. We spent most of the day walking through the many steep gorges before finally ending up at a waterfall pool that we all eagerly jumped into! Being inland meant the t...