Karratha, a Long Way From Home

KALBARRI a very different town in the Pilbara. It is the base for a lot of the workers at the wharf at Point Samson where the iron ore leaves for overseas and nearby  Dampier which is the largest producer of gas as well as 40% of Australia's oil. The town is very well serviced with a shopping centre comprising, Woolworths, Coles, KMart and Target.

We are now the furthest we have been from home, to head home north would be 5485km's or south 5582km's. Now that we are heading north we are bumping into the same old faces every few days which is fun, Greta and Alan are friends of a friend of Dad's on the Gold Coast and we caught up with them in Exmouth and another couple  since Jurien Bay, John and Maureen also from the Gold Coast.

                                     

COSSACK one of several buildings left in this heritage town, that once boomed in 1872 with the gold rush and then pearling, it has been hit in the past by several cyclones and now most of the pearling is done from Broome. The town was abandoned in 1950.

                                     

CAPE LAMPERT one of the many big boys toys for loading the iron ore on to the ships sitting out from here.

POINT SAMSON, Sam's Creek couldn't get over the varying colours of the rock.

Check out the chains on the neck of this turtle outside Cossack backpackers, these are in place for when cyclones hit the area. Where we are staying the permanent vans have chains like this in place and straps across the top, very scary.