It was very cold this morning 8 or 9 degrees, Tom Price is a cooler spot in winter as it's the highest town in WA at 746 metres. It was around 20c during the day, very pleasant.
I went on a mine tour this morning, it was very interesting. Tom Price has 5,000 people, Rio Tinto directly employ 800, 25% are female, the truck drivers salary is $120-150K, they rent a company house for $250 a month. It's a huge operation.
This afternoon we prepared to head, decided we would head out towards Karijini (couldn't go in due to Ellie) then around to the Tom Price Railway road to head up to Karratha. As the road is a private road owned by Rio Tinto you need a permit to go on it. We obtained one from the Information Centre, you have to watch a 20 minute video and give a donation to the Royal Flying Doctor. They say the road is very rough but should be interesting.
We are parked just out the Hamersley Mt Bruce road, just out from Karijini, I had just let the tyres down to 28psi as the road is so rough when we came across a spot off the road where we could park.