It was hot- 40+ degrees so we drove pretty sedately along the Red Dog Highway (! True!) over the rolling hills south, keen to keep the engine happy.
The quickest route to Tom Price includes travelling on the private dirt road that runs beside the Rio Tinto railway for the last 100km.
We did the online course to secure a pass as this shaves 100km off the trip.
It was interesting to travel past these enormous laden trains as they laboured with their iron ore load north to the port of Dampier for export to China.
We arrived in Tom Price just as a rain squall burst. Our first real rain 6 months.
We ran into a couple of travellers from Switzerland and had a good night with them, and also two other families we met a month ago in Willare, west of Broome.
Rain!
If you've not come to work, people typically come to Tom Price to visit the various gorges of Karijini National Park. We went into the visitor's centre and picked up various maps and guides etc. to explore.
Had some interesting chats with people who live in Tom Price. There's a lot of frustration between what some people work for and others get.
Best leave that there.
You know the road trains are long when these warnings are before a rail crossing!
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| Fern Pool. Lovely! |
Cheaper than Thailand
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| What could go wrong? Wittenoom is just down the road. |
Off early tomorrow... a big (full) day's drive south west to Carnarvon
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