Karijini National Park / Port Hedland.

We got our car fixed and we were back on the road again after three nights. It was really nice to have some down time with nothing to do except swim and read in the caravan park.
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Andy trying to solve our car problem!!

 Isaac with one of the million grasshoppers

We left the coast after Carnarvon and headed inland a few hours to Karijini National Park. A few people have mentioned Karijini to us over the last week saying it’s similar to the Kimberly's only without the crocodiles and that it’s a must do. So we arrived in Karijini with one day to explore.
It’s a beautiful place with plenty of gorges, waterfalls and swimming holes. It was a really hot day so it was hot work getting to the gorges but awesome having a refreshing swim once we were there. We would have loved to see more of the park but we had to move on.

Main Road to Karijini.

Lots of cows on the way.

Circular Pool

Long way down.

Refreshing swim.

Fortescue Falls

Our camping spot for the night.

The wildflowers are beautiful at this time of year.

We then made our way to Port Hedland. A big change from what we have been seeing. Port Hedland is all about Iron Ore…as well as salt piles, long trains, big ships and it’s where 4 carriage road trains are the norm.

We had lunch in a park along the port and watched an Iron Ore Carrier getting filled. I must admit I wasn’t thinking great things about Port Hedland when we arrived- not exactly a pretty place. But… as we watched the little tug boats bring in another huge carrier a lovely mum came over and started chatting. It turns out, her and her kids were there to wave at her husband as he flew over in the helicopter that dropped him on board these huge carriers…. he then piloted the ships into Port. She was a wealth of info about everything…… It turns out it was a perfect day to come into Port Hedland as it was a king tide that day so it was extremely busy with plenty of ships coming in. I found it quite an interesting place in the end…

One of the tug boats – amazing little boats- actually not so little.

 

Getting filled with Iron Ore – takes 48 hours to fill a ship.

Bringing in another ship – very cool when the Dad blew the ships horn at his kids.

Salt Piles

Can you tell they are all missing T.V

 

A little guy we nearly ran over.

Thought I’d better include this final photo as some people are asking if I’m really on this holiday . Hopefully i will update again soon…we are heading to Broome and then the Kimberly’s but we have been told they are still closed. We will see what happens.

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