Before we go inland to the remoteness and heat, we've come up to Karratha to get the car serviced.
Its difficult to find a mechanic who can fit you in within a reasonable amount of time in this part of Australia. It's a harsh place to live and work and not enough people want to live here.
Couple this with the extraordinary cost of rent (talking to some RioTinto workers in the pool... > $4000 a week for a 3 br house that sells for <1m) means a dearth of trades in some industries, particularly if there's bigger money to be made in the mining and oil/gas side.
Anyway, a service is due; the last one was 15000 kms ago at Mt Isa.
We've have to stay another day because we noticed the wheel alignment marks on the van had moved. On inspection, uneven wear is visible so we rang around and were able to get a booking for Thursday morning.
It's hot here in Karratha. We're unpowered; our solar is good but our set-up can't run the AirCon but at least we're at a park with a pool.
We'll head down to Tom Price tomorrow and use that as a base to explore Karrijini for the next few days.
Hope all gets done….. make sure you take PLENTY of water with you hiking in Karajini…. One of, us who shall not be named was affected by heat stroke hiking out of a gorge….but certainly was stunning.
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