Heading South from Broome
It's mid August and our time in Broome has come to an end. This is a bit of a watershed time in the trip. Heading south is a turn around, with us leaving the tropics with the subsequent fall in temperature, along with the realisation that we have passed the halfway mark. The upside to all this being lots of sights and places we have never seen or been too still to come.
Our first stop over was Karratha, 835 Km's from Broome, being the longest leg of the trip. Due to the extra night at Halls Creek we had just the one night instead of two originally booked. The trip was drawn out with a scrub fire closing the H'way south of Port Headland. When first seeing the smoke a good distance away it was apparent that it was a major concern but only realising that we were to be held up listening to the 'truckies' on channel 40 on the 2 way radio, another handy resource to have on trips such as this. It was an hour and a half before we were able to get through. We turned around out of the queue back to Port Headland to a shopping centre and had coffee and a look around to kill the time.
Port Headland to Karratha and down to Geraldton is iron ore and other mineral mining country with turn offs all along the H'way to the various mines that are scattered all through the Kimberley's and Pilbara. Big trucks, big machinery, big trains and big ships are the order of the day in this neck of the woods, or more to the point, no woods! The country is as vast and open as the 'toys' are big.
Finally on our way
Karratha Port
Great little cafe
