Day 47 04/08/2013 Carawine Gorge to Mt Robinson via Newman We were up at 6am and on the road by 7.30am. It would have been earlier except it took us a while to collapse the 'dunny' tent!! Today we planned to, once again, take the 'road less travelled', and we were rewarded with some excellent outback scenery and 4WDriving. The road we used from the gorge to the small township of Nullagine, was spookily named Skull Springs Road! It was 153km long and strictly 4W...

Day 46 03/08/2013 (Harriet's1st Birthday) Carawine Gorge.It became very windy again in the early hours of the morning. We were awake pre-dawn, and it was a lovely sunrise. We watched the birds over our morning cuppa and then after breakfast we went for a walk along the gorge as far as we could. This land is part of a cattle station and the owners make it available for camping because, so far, all those who camp here do so responsibly and take care of the area.At ...

Day 45 02/08/2013 Port Hedland to Carawine Gorge via Marble Bar. (It was quite noisy in the night!) We decided to head into the East Pilbara, (the largest shire in the world!), today, to take a look at Marble Bar, and then head for a bush camp at Carawine Gorge.......all in all a drive of around 400 km. But first......we had forgotten to refill our spare gas cylinder, so we headed off to do that. Most locations only have 'swap and go' cylinders now, and it was...

Day 44 01/08/2013 Barn Hill Station to Port Hedland.After breakfast we went for a walk along the beach. There were some lovely rock formations and interesting stones. Many of the rocks contained large amounts of iron ore. We saw some terns fishing.......and a few other people and dogs, out walking!Once back at camp, we packed up and were on our way.Today we covered over 500km.......and most of the route was uninteresting!We stopped at the Sandfire Roadhouse to dr...

Day 43 31/07/2013Melbourne-Broome-Barn Hill StationIf you haven't lost interest by now......you will see that I am back to blogging again!After a couple of weeks touching base with family, we flew from chilly Melbourne, back to very sunny and very warm, Broome.We picked up our vehicle and camper trailer and once we had re-provisioned we headed out of town. Farewell Broome!We are travelling in the direction of Port Hedland. The road is called the Great Northern Hi...