80 Mile Beach A beautiful campsite on a wonderful long white beach on the long road between between Port Hedland and Broome. Another fantastic sunset. Lovely warm but very shallow cloudy sea for swimming and we go in to the shallows but with warnings of sharks sighted that day. No fishes to see and the waves are not big enough to body surf, but it's still lovely to sit and swim in. Extremely high humidity at night, the vehicles and trailer are totally soaked...

Port Hedland The journey is reasonably uneventful and the countryside gradually leaves the red Pilbara hills behind and goes into the flat lands as we rejoin the coastal highway just after a short heavy rain storm. However, after such a smooth ride to town, why has the front edge of our oven come off?? A town totally focussed on getting iron ore from the trains and onto ships and sent to China. It is not inspiring in any way, looks unplanned and a mess, is no...

Tom Price & Karrijini Our road to Karrijini once again takes us on some of the worst corrugated unmade dirt roads I've seen, but at least we've got our permit to go on the Rio Tinto railtrack for the last part of the journey and it proves to be a real blessing. Apart that is for the 30 minute wait at a level crossing because an iron ore train which is 2.25 kilometres long, stopped down the track with its' last truck sticking just one metre beyond the detecto...

Millstream NP The road to Millstream is rocky and slow (circa 30kph all the way),but safe and we arrive jolted weary but jolly. Dust all over the place in the van, the smoke alarm shaken off and the screw holding the height cable missing is the only damage. Millstream is an idyllic remote peaceful old homestead which stopped operating 50 years ago and is now an NP. A clear water source which is used to feed the towns on the coast, it has become an important a...

Pannawonica A totally Rio Tinto created mining 'town' is very unremarkable in many ways, but will always be remembered by Angie & I for one thing. It is where we woke up to find an email from Murray informing us that Izzy is pregnant and we are going to become grandparents. Everything else pales into insignificance as we sit there, a bit stunned, watching the white cockatoos feeding on the town sports oval in the early morning sunshine. An uneventful jour...