The scenary to Port Headland was pretty spectacular. Very busy road, made up of road trains(4 carriages carrying iron ore) , miners’ 4WD’s and tourists. We counted over 20 dead cows on the side of the road. One roadhouse for 300klms.
Port Headland is the second largest bulk tonnage port in the world. It is a working town with a red glow to it.
Restocked again, and headed north to Cape Keraudren. We put the tent up for the girls and they only came out to use the toilet! It was great!
We caught a good feed of fish.
The sand-flies were fierce. We had to burn dry cow patties to keep them away!
At low tide you can walk out to the mouth or back up the mangroves, we found lots of turtles waiting for the tide to come back in. We didn’t see any crocodiles(luckily).
After 5 nights, we moved on to 80 mile beach caravan park. It is the biggest park we have seen so far, in the middle of nowhere, full of oldies & today was market day. 2 old ladies were playing the piano, book stalls & home made items. The next day we drove along the beach and collected shells. There is hundreds, the girls were very excited!
16/05/12 This is the road into Barn Hill. You can see why it’s closed in the rainy season.
We would stay longer here but the last shop was Port Headland (500klms back,11 days ago), so we have been on rashens with food & alcohol. Luckily we could buy frozen bread & long life milk from the 2 roadhouses, otherwise we would have had to head straight to Broome.
18/06/12 Arrived safely in Broome.
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