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...

Karratha Sunny, 30 degrees. Ben was working this morning so we had a lazy day off today. Lauri took Ben to work at 6am just in case we wanted to use the car. I had a quick dip in the pool before breakfast. It was very cold... Brrr!!!! It is under the shade sail so at this time of the year doesn't heat up much. Of course in the summer months it is much more user friendly. We went to the supermarket for a few things and had a look at Karratha town. It i...

Karratha Sunny, 30 degrees. This morning we left for a trip to Millstream National Park with Ben. It was paved road at first but later was gravel, but the road was still good. First up we went to the Millstream Homestead. It is very isolated but people had been farming there since the mid 1850's. The original homestead had been destroyed by a cyclone, but the one that still that survives until today was built in 1914. It is still in great condition, wi...

Yannarie River to Karratha Sunny, 30 degrees Woke up about 8.30am to another sunny morning. After breakfast we packed everything up for the trip up to Ben's house. The countryside was quite different to how I had imagined it. Not nearly as sparse as I would have thought. At times there were lots of hills, some flat topped. And lots of trees and shrubs and quite green shrubs in sections. Then closer to Karratha it was quite flat again but lots of grasslan...