After packing up Judy in the POURING rain in Karijini, it was off to Karratha. What was supposed to be a 300km journey along the Rio Tinto rail access road soon turned into a 500km journey the long way round, the rain definitely made its mark. 5 hours later we pulled into the historic old pub of Whim Creek. After a beautiful lunch and a look at the brilliant collection of Aboriginal Art it was back into Larry for the last leg into Karratha.

We knew it was just another mining town and that it was, but it had so much to offer.

Dampier was high on the list for our love Red Dog, a slight let down…. Looks nothing like in the movie. But we got to finally see the infamous statue of Red himself. Oh and Tristan caught a glimpse of the iron ore port.

Then it was off to the Murujuga National Park where we were lucky enough to view one of WA's largest collections of Indigenous rock art. It was an amazing park but heavily surrounded by industrial mining equipment.

We had been recommended a visit to Point Sampson. A tiny piece of paradise… there is still a working Iron Ore Port, but any point or port they can use up here…they will use it. From the remnants of the old jetty to the ship wreck off the coast. We wish we had of stayed for a few days. But the thought of packing up Judy and moving 60kms away just wasn't worth it… Not to mention we had a weekend of fun.

We decided to stay in Karratha just a bit longer as we heard on the Indigenous radio that they had Dan Sultan (Our favourite artist and Tara's crush), Thelma Plum and Troy Cassar-Daley, coming to celebrate NADOC week with a free concert. We ended up only staying for Dan and Thelma, it was just too bloody hot for Troy. A brilliant line up of free entertainment.

Thanks Karratha!