Karijini to Port Hedland - 25th July To quote from Trishy's diary - "Gorgeous ride through National Park green hills, jagged red outcrops, through passes of layered red ironstone rocks to the Auski Roadhouse". Here we grabbed a bit of food to see us through to Port Hedland. The road in was very busy with huge roadtrains but not a problem for two bikes on the straight open roads. Even with all these trucks our roads are in such great condition unlike the bac...

KARIJINI NATIONAL PARK Tues, Wed, 23-24 July 2013 I headed off to Karijini National Park with a heavy heart, as we were worrying about our 4 year old granddaughter Orlena, who has developed a cyst on her brain as a complication of her recent cranioplasty (skull bone replacement operation.) Here we were in the middle of nowhere, too far away from Port Hedland for a quick flight home, but I was hoping things weren't going to be that bad. Orlena was in the best h...

Newman was a surprise! - 21st & 22nd July 2013 After Trish's close encounter with the Wedge-Tail we arrive in Newman safely and happy to finally be experiencing warmer weather. Newman is a very neat but obviously a FIFO town. Both caravan parks have been set up as huge FIFO villages, with 500 beds in the one we stayed at and 700 at the other. But still they managed to still have a good holiday caravan park feel to the tourist section. Excellent ablutions...

MEEKATHARRA - A ONCE GOLDEN PROSPECT (Thursday-Friday 18-19 July 2013) We pulled ourselves away from Mount Magnet in an early morning chilly breeze, and the days riding did not get any warmer, with my bike temperature gauge hovering between 7 and 9 degrees most of the way and the wind making it seem even colder. I was wearing double layers of wool thermals and my hands were cold, despite winter gloves. No heated hand grips for my motorcycle, I am Mrs Intrepid! ...

Attracted to Mt Magnet - 16th & 17th July 2013 The ride from Leonora to Mt Magnet was a treat as we both love the scenery out here. Even the cold wind did not take away from our enjoyment. First stop was Leinster for a refuel and toilet break. Leinster was a bit of a surprise particularly after Laverton in its post mining days. Leinster being one of those well laid out and very neat company built mining towns. The only sign of being in the outback was t...