After saying our goodbyes to Jean and Ted, we travelled 50km's down into Port Hedland, stopping at an information area. There we watched on Redbank Bridge, a BHP Billion Iron Ore train pulling out with 4 engines and 270 carriages and overlooked the Dampier Salt’s towering stockpile.

We proceeded into town, the amount of industry here is just amazing. Port Hedland is one of the world’s largest and busiest working harbour’s, filled with grand austere ships that transport hundreds of millions of tonnes of cargo each year to distant places. We had a drive around before pulling into Marapikurrinya Park, which is a water front park overlooking Port Hedland port and the best view of the Iron Ore ships being loaded and we watched two ships leaving the port with the assistance of four tug boats.

Alan looked on Marine Traffic app only to discover there were 84 ships around the area, either in the port or waiting outside the channel. Low and behold who should pull up in front of DABUS, yes you guest it, Jean and Ted. Now who is stalking who?? Had morning tea with them, they took off to catch up with Ted’s cousin, only to arrive back later on. We visited the information centre, went to the Courthouse gallery, up to Koombana lookout before stocking up on supplies and taking off towards Tom Price. On the trip down this part of the Great Northern Highway, nearly every 5-10 km’s road trains with 4 trailers all carting Iron Ore to Port Hedland would be coming towards us. We pulled into the Yule River Rest Area, 120km’s south of Port Hedland, far enough off the road for the road trains travelling through the night, not to disturb us.