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…