Again a long day of driving lay ahead of us. The closer we
came to Port Hedland the busier the traffic became. Port Hedland is not only a
bustling mining town, it is also one of the world largest (in tonnage terms)
harbours with over 158 million tonnes of products being shipped each year.
The
landscape and roads are dominated by big road trains, mining trucks, freight
trains and white mining cars with their orange flags. The town is literally
covered in a layer of red dust. And although the large scale of industry in
motion is pretty impressive to watch we pretty quickly decided there wasn’t
much for us to see and do here.
We would have loved to get some information
from the Visitor Center about Karjini National Park, but they were closed for
stock-take, so not much wiser we left Port Hedland behind us after filling up
fuel and the fridge.
About 50 km south/west we decided to camp at Indee Station.
That was an interesting experience. It was mainly a miner’s camp and we were
the only tourists there. The property around the station was covered in old
relics as they called it. I think it was just a big metal grave yard. We parked
next to the amenities where we had a bit of shade. It was unbelievable hot here
in the outback.
We were very happy we didn’t arrive a day earlier as apparently
they had a big sandstorm coming through!
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