Karajini National Park - Port Hedland - De Grey River Sunny, 30 degrees. Up early this morning as Ben had a long drive home and was going to work in the afternoon. Had some breakfast and he was on his way about 8am. We have spent a few weeks with him, and will not see him again for a few months now. It has been great to catch up with him and travel around together. We have all had a great time and seen a lot. We left the campsite about 9.30am for the dri...

Tom Price to Karajini Sunny, 24 degrees. This morning we drove into Karajini National Park, about 80 km away, so an easy drive today. First up we set up camp in Dales Campground, one of the two campgrounds in the park. Unfortunately a fire had gone through the area a while ago, so most of the trees were burnt, it would have looked lovely and green before. We then went to have a look at Dales Gorge- first up Circular Pool. The access to the pool was down a v...

Tom Price Sunny, 23 degrees. Up early this morning as we had booked a tour of the Tom Price Rio Tinto Mine. We needed to be there at 9.30. Apparently we were very lucky as the tours usually run daily but due to the tour guide breaking his arm last week, there had been no tour for a few days. But luckily they had arranged for a new driver to take the tour for the Sunday. It was very interesting, seeing the huge machinery they use for the mining and the huge...

Karratha to Tom Price Cloudy, about 25 degrees. Up early this morning as we had a very long day ahead of us. We had debated about going on Rio Tinto railway road, which is gravel all the way for about 300 kms. But really the fun bus is not supposed to go long distances on unmade roads, so we were concerned that if something happened we would be forfeiting the deposit of $2500. And also getting stuck there would not be fun. So we had to go the long way around...

Karratha Sunny, 30 degrees. This morning we left about 10 or so with Ben for a drive to Burrup peninsula and Deep Gorge. Went for a walk in the gorge looking for ancient aboriginal rock carvings. Then we drove to Dampier. First we stopped at the Red Dog statue. Then had a look at the harbour there. Very pretty with quite a few boats. Then onto the Woodside gas plant where we had a look at all the information about how the gas is extracted from the platfo...