Port Hedland Hotels - Reviews and Rates

...and so we ended up in Port Hedland, another 200km from Roeborn. Another industrial port town, it had plenty more of the huge piles of salt and iron ore, and the mammoth trains that transport it here from the mines. Most of them are around 5km long. Yes, that long. They just go as far as the eye can see, it's truely stunning. We found a carava...

Well here we are in Port Hedland - by necessity rather that by choice. MAD have a broken shocker on their trailer and it has been flopping around like a knife in empty honey jar. It needs to be replaced B4 we can continue on the dirt roads. Would you believe we cannot find a suitable replacement one here. One has to be flown in from Perth, hopef...

Too bad we left Jenny and the Grong Grong Guys behind, but the heat was unbearable. So was the atmosphere in Henry's Cafe. I had to get out of there somehow very fast. Up to the last minute it wasn't clear whether I'd still continue my trip with Nick or without him, since we quite had some disagreements and I just became very silent. This one da...

A quick 250k has brought us to Port Hedland, the largest industrial port in Western Australia. Over one third of the worlds iron ore is exported from this one place, together with a huge amount of industrial salt. The bulk carriers in the harbour are huge and the freight trains among the longest in the world.The biggest to date consisted of 682 ...

Another industrial town, this time famous for Iron Ore and Salt production. See our picture of the Dampier salt works. We are here just chilling out for a few days before tackling the drive to Broome. Recently to pass the nights away we have been watching Lost. We never had a chance to watch it back in the UK but we have become hooked on it. So ...

As we reached our cruising velocity of 110kph small missiles began firing up off the road and slamming into the bull bars and fender. The giant grasshoppers in this part of the country seem to have a deathwish. They sun themselves on the bitumen, and milliseconds before you run over them, catapult themselves upwards and end their lives in a loud...

Travelled back to the coast to Port Hedland, where all the ore from Pilbarra area is shipped abroad to China etc. Its warm - yeh!!!! back in shorts from thermal underwear last night and thick socks etc. Staying here for a couple of days, tonight is the phenomon of Stairway to the Moon - will tell you what that is tomorrow.

Spent just one night in a campsite here. It was very hot, maybe 42C. Very difficult to sleep in that heat. Got maybe 3 hrs sleep which was not good considering we had a 600k drive the next morning. There is not much to see in Port Hedland apart from salt mountains. We head to Broome in the morning and the German girls are going to spend 2 nights...

Somewhere out in the deep water off the coast of Carnarvon, there is a fleet of boats bobbing about, pulling in prawns. Ian is out there dragging them in by the netful, and at the end of three weeks, those prawns will come back in to shore and begin making their way out to restaurants, markets, grocery stores, people's homes. Some of them may ev...

Und nach einer Nacht im Auto auf'm Parkplatz ging's dann weiter und wieder an die Kueste :) Gut, in PortHedland ist ausser Industrie nix los und ich hab noch nicht mal ein huebsches Haeuschen gesehen, aber was solls. Fuer eine Nacht war's super - und das Hostel hatte ziemlich viele Videos, so dass uns auch nicht allzu langweilig war. Und dann wa...