Mary Pool – Halls Creek

Today was a long and hot drive. Its dry and dusty on the roads. Arrived in Halls Creek and were really surprised at how many new buildings have gone up, how clean it was, and how much of a different memory of the place we had on our last visit. The alcohol restrictions seem to be working quite well.

Tried to drive out to Old Halls Creek. They had corrugations on their corrugations and it was impossible. Got as far as China Wall and gave it a miss. Were going to stay a few days and do the tour that Pete was going to organise for us of Argyle Diamond Mine, but couldn’t face another corrugated road. Have discovered that our Transit Van seals don’t work. They seem to suck the dust in at every opportunity. The dust comes in through the back doors. The seals aren’t damaged in anyway, they just don’t work. The other place the dust gets in is through the airconditioning when its on recirculate. This seems to also blow lots of red dust throughout the van. So no more dirt roads for us!

Drove off into the sunset and parked about 20kms out of Halls Creek, just past Palm Lake on the side of the road.