Taking the scenic route, one day at a time
Our final weeks in the Pilbara saw us slowly winding our way south-west from Port Hedland through the Karratha and Dampier region and then ending at Onslow. Karratha Karratha, with a population of almost 17,000, is the main centre servicing the Pilbara region. With the best range of shops we’d seen in a while, we…
As detailed in a separate post, we drove for about four hours down the Great Northern Highway from Port Hedland to visit the Karijini National Park. This 300kms section of highway is particularly busy with long road trains that thunder under the weight of their heavy loads, especially iron ore and heavy machinery transported between…
After leaving Port Hedland, we headed due south, about four hours’ drive inland, to explore the much anticipated Karijini National Park. Karijini is Western Australia’s second largest national park, situated just above the Tropic of Capricorn, and is noted for its spectacularly rugged gorges punctuated with watercourses and swimming holes. We walked the 4kms Dales…
As we left Broome and started our long journey down the Western Australian coast, the idea of a short stop at 80 Mile Beach for a spot of fishing and chilling sounded appealing. We booked into an unpowered site for the night, with the intention of moving to a powered site if one became available…
While in Broome, we booked a scenic flight and day tour out to visit the Horizontal Falls. What a fantastic adventure! Once described by David Attenborough as “Australia’s most unusual natural wonder”, the Horizontal Falls are situated 220 kms north east of Broome, in the unbelievably turquoise waters of Talbot Bay. The ‘falls’ are created…