Port Hedland - Port Smith

Today we visited PH and had a drive around the changes to the old townsite. BHP are the main sponsors of a fabulous world class Art Gallery. Their latest Aboriginal Art Exhibition attracted buyers from Melbourne and Sydney! Most of the pieces were sold! An excellent setup!

They also had the Dalgety Homestead dating to 1901 now running as a museum. The Hedland Hotel has been purchased by someone and turned into housing quarters, thus leaving just one pub left in PH! This was purchased about 3 years ago for 1.5m and is now on the market for 10m! Turnover is a massive $95k/wk! That’s a hell of a lot of alchopoptax!

this artwork is called Cyclone. Its a Hills Hoist wraped around a post!

On the way out of PH we dropped in for a final bye to Gav who was on duty. We had a final look over the Met Office, which is due to be replaced next year with a new building. Don’t know why, as the tec has left and wont be replaced (Steve’s old job) and Gav isn’t being replaced when he goes, so it will be a 1 x bum station – why bother with a new office!?!

look had and you'll see the workers hard hats on top of each termite mound - approx 30kms out of Hedland - towards Goldsworthy

Took off towards Broome and past not the one usual train line, but now three! Boy they just cant build it fast enough round here. There is donga city after donga city as there just aren’t any houses to put the people in!

Went up to Cape Keraudren to go and spend the night, but there were about 5 NO DOGS signs plastered at the entrance of the road, so we thought we’d head on to Eighty Mile Beach and try our luck there. There was a sign on the highway saying no free camping and no dogs allowed. It appears that we’re throughted at every turn! Headed to Point Smith. Appears they accept dogs there, but road is just too corregated go, so camped at the Park just north of there - now just 150kms from Broome.