Day 1 - It was a big 500km drive from our free camp near Port Headland to Broome on Saturday the 6th of June. It was hot and all the way and by the end we were all getting a little irritable with each other. However by 2:30pm we had checked into the Roebuck Caravan Park (around 30km east of Broome) and by 2:35pm we were all in the pool, the long drive was then a thing of the past. The rest of the day was spent relaxing and getting organised for a good look aroun...

We headed off from our free camp at Albert Tognolini to go to Port Headland. We were heading the right direction as we came across road train after road train going from the Port back to mines toward Newman. We arrived in Port Headland around lunch time. We were surprised how industrial the port town is. Only to discover it is the largest bulk tonnage export port in the world, exporting 372.3 million tonnes per year. The kids played in the park whilst we wa...

Karijin is the second largest National Park in Western Australia. It is just north of Tom Price and depending on what part of the park you are heading into, it is around an hour's drive. We decided to head into the eastern side of the park and stay at Dales Campground. This and Savannah Camp Ground are the only camp grounds in the park. Both cost to stay, again you need a day pass or yearly park pass to get in. Then it will cost you to stay which is unpowere...

On the 3rd of June we left Paraburdoo and headed to Tom Price. Again the landscape was not as we expected. We expected flat lifeless desert. However the scenery is rolling hills and mountains covered in scrubby trees and bracken. After good rains here it is green and very pretty. Tom Price is another mining town in the Pilbara and was named after Thomas Moore Price who arrived in the area in the early 1960's to appraise deposits of ore. He worked for the Am...

We left Exmouth on late Sunday the 31st of May to head toward Tom Price. Everyone on the road had been telling us not go to Karatha but to go inland to Tom Price and check out the Karijini National Park. We found a free camp along the way called Baradale Rest area and stopped for the night. The following day we headed toward Tom Price. There has been alot of rain here recently and you could almost think you were around the Grampians in Victoria. There are impre...