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Day 173 - Broome to De Grey River It’s moving day! Or is it?! We’ve still got loads we could be doing here but we really should be going. Amber, Ross and Lucy walked across from the resort to say goodbye, that was so sweet of you guys, thank you very much and we really hope we’ll see you again when we get to Perth. Belinda very kindly offers Darryl a special cup of coffee with her special coffee maker so when she brings it round we pop it on the stove. It’s funny, as it’s boiling we don’t get the [View Full Entry]

Darryl and Sarah - Wallaby Wanderers | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 19th 2009 | 45 Views | [diary=446297]

Nulkie cycling into Broome
Smoke signals as we were leaving
One of the smaller ones, we've seen mostly those with 4 trailers today!

2-10-09 We set off early & the scenery is pretty boring, flat & not many trees, you cant see the ocean , so I settled back & read a book. We got fuel at Sandfire Roadhouse & had a drink an ice cream. We got to Pardoo Roadhouse & topped up with fuel & had lunch & then pushed on to De Grey River free spot. We travelled 388 km’s today. It was a pretty windy trip & used a bit of fuel, never mind. When we arrived at De Grey, we stopped & walked the length of the camp area [View Full Entry]

Cobb and Co 4 - Michelle and Dennis Shaw | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 6th 2009 | 52 Views | [diary=442604]

3     2-10-09   The train from our camp spot on the De Grey River
4     2-10-09   The view from our camp spot on the De Grey River
7    2-10-09   Our camp spot on the De Grey River

De Grey to Port Hedland, 27th August - 2 September Stopping at De Grey River for an early lunch Judy suggested a walk along the track. We found a beautiful spot overlooking the river so decided Port Hedland could wait a night and we went back for the rig and set up camp. By this time it was very windy and Rags wasn’t sure whether the “drag” had been because we were punching into the wind. We met some delightful people, Maria and Ernie and spent the evening playing “Sequence”. The next morning we’d decided to stay on at De Grey [View Full Entry]

Weggs - Judy and Rags | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 4th 2009 | 61 Views | [diary=433658]

Loading the Jeep
Port Hedland Tour
A snake in the caravan park

Hi all Computer too slow to add photos before. I will try again now. Cheers Lynne [View Full Entry]

Lckiwis - Lynne Crump | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 25th 2009 | 62 Views | [diary=431057]

close up of Marble Bar rock
on the road from Marble Bar
what can happen

Karratha to Port Hedland via Roebourne 200km It was only a short ride today, but oh was it a return to those high school geography classes with Mr. Nitsky. We learnt all about the mining in the Pilbara region. In fact we seemed to have learnt the same thing each year, perhaps indicative of a big country with much not going on, or more about a new school and the Australian education system. Anyway Tom Price figures boldly in my memory (who could forget that name). And there was a sign for it a few k’s out of Karratha. Tom Price [View Full Entry]

OFL - Philip Bourne | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 23rd 2009 | 78 Views | [diary=430593]

Aboriginals at Roebourne Jail
The Fabled Galah

We leave Port Headland tomorrow, and probably won't have coverage again for a while. We are heading inland, south to Marble Bar - the hottest place in Australia for a night. From there we will check out the dirt road to Newman, some 299k, but will probably retrace our tracks to highway one, go west 60k, then turn off south again 450k to Newman (where the world's largest open cut mine is), and then Karijini National Park. We have booked a caravan park in Karratha, back on the coast from the 30th Aug for 5 days, where we are expecting some [View Full Entry]

Lckiwis - Lynne Crump | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 15th 2009 | 74 Views | [diary=428366]

Train beside salt pans
Middle engines of train
Harvesting salt

Hi everyone We have travelled down an uninteresting road from Broome, but have made many lovely stops along the way, each one along a red dirt road to the coast. Unfortunately there has been no computer coverage until now. We arrived in Port Hedland today, and have lots of emails and news to attend to. I will probably send 2 lots of photos, as too many to put on one blog! After 11 days in Broome, we drove south to the turnoff to Barn Hill Station, then tackled our first (for the caravan) 10k of red dirt road. This is why [View Full Entry]

Lckiwis - Lynne Crump | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: August 13th 2009 | 112 Views | [diary=427848]

Chris casts the new rod
weighing in my fish
Eighty Mile Beach sunset

We stopped here after leaving Karratha on our way to Broome, it was just over 120kms North of Port Hedland. It was a station stop so it was only $45 for a week or $17.50 for a day so we thought we may as well do a week as we are in no hurry and the ranger at the gates kinda talked it up a little to us. But once we arrived it was a bit of a let down as there were limited sites that were on flat land, most were on a slight hill or full of rocks. But [View Full Entry]

TJWest - Troy, Jaqui & Axel | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
302 Words | 4 Comment(s) | 11 Photo(s) | 0 Video(s)
Published: July 20th 2009 | 51 Views | [diary=420158]

beach at low tide
Makes you just wanna swim hey!!!
Little creatures make these as part of there house making

DAY 195 I got out of bed at 5am for a pee, and as we had camped at De Grey camp area, (615) Camps 5 Western Australia page 341, we knew there were no toilets at all, so you have to be brave and “GO BUSH” when you need to go, last night we were rolling around laughing because we had just left the Taylor Wellington Caravan, to go to bed, Kirsty said she needed to go bush, and wandered off with the shovel. So, I got up out of the trailer and found the first available tree, which is [View Full Entry]

kangaroojack - The Ts | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 24th 2009 | 69 Views | [diary=401537]

Road to Marble Bar
Road to Marble Bar
Here's one

We were both a bit worried about the journey today. It was the longest stretch we’d done before and although it was on a good road, we knew there was going to be very little on the 600km route from Broome to Port Headland. It was a long way, through barren red soil, and there would be no mobile signal either. In preparation, we filled up the water tank and diesel before setting off around 9.30am. Getting out of Broome proved difficult. You’d think that GSP would make it a synch but instead it got a bit confused and kept trying [View Full Entry]

Karen and Matt - Karen & Matt Bleakley | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 20th 2009 | 15 Views | [diary=365261]



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