Day 28 Dampier
Well another busy day done. It started as usual with Maureen
up and about early taking photos. All around us are huge rock piles. It really
looks like someone decided to shift rocks from one place to
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| Sturt Peas |
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| Kangaroo is he rocks |
another and they
have been bulldozed into piles. It is quite extraordinary in its shapes. There is
not much flat ground around just piles of rocks, but there are a number of
kangaroos in the piles. Maureen got a picture of one running off, you can see
it on the bottom of the picture. There are also a heap of Sturt Peas out in
flower, again see Maureen’s pictures.
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| Trains |
On her morning walk, Maureen wanted to see the train track
and hiked through the bush to find the line and see if she could see the
terminal but gave up. There is a small island off the beach here and it looks
like someone had a house there and grown date palms.
Once breakfast was done we planned out what we needed for
our next few days at Millstream with food as well as water. I wanted to get a
jerry can holder for a water container and some spare parts etc for the caravan
such as mats and wine! Off we went for some retail therapy and chasing down the
items we needed. Karratha is a great little town and now that we are a little
used to it, quite easy to find your way around. It must be said it is the
undisputed home of the Shark Cat boat, every second boat is a cat.
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| Sturt Pea clump |
Once back and lunch done we went for a drive to Burrup
Peninsula. It is huge. You see the pictures of the gas plant and you go yeah it’s
big, but in person, it is huge! The plant goes for miles, or seems to. They have
these huge tanks half buried below the ground, they look like if they exploded
it would send rocks for miles, not suppress it, but I assume someone knows what
they are doing. It is hard to look at the site and then across the road and try
and imagine what the ground was like. On the one side there are these huge
mounds of rock and on the other is this huge flat area with the gas plant on
it. The earthworks must have been horrendous! Maureen took some pictures of the
site but on her phone (left the camera in the van) and we are having trouble
downloading them, you will have to wait for those.
On the way home, we stopped at the Red Dog Statue for
pictures and Maureen saw 3 ore trains at once, 2 loaded and 1 empty. On the
bridge was another couple, obvious train tragics as they had tripods and
binoculars and kept telling Maureen all these facts about the engines and who
owned them and their history etc.
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| Ship loading facilities |
Next few days we will be in Millstream and off line, so this
will be our last post for a while, until Friday. We are cleaning the van out to
check items and clean the fridge and pack food, amazing that for such a small
van and fridge, how much it takes to do it, everything has to be done right as
there is no space to allow for it not to be done.
We just got back from having tea - Roast Lamb, yum. We have had too much to drink, just about needed the wheelbarrow Rob, but it was done for technical reasons, not for enjoyment, we needed the cork from the bottle. Maureen had spent ages selecting the bottle of bubbly - does this one have a cork? Yes, you'll do. Back at Giralia, a couple there showed us how to keep the fly wire door from shutting back into the main door, you put a cork in the handle gap and it stops the fly wire door from latching shut. It had taken us ages to work out how to seperate the fly
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| Drinks for technical reasons, forcing ourselves |
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