For just short of 3 months the weather was picture perfect… with very, very few exceptions the sky was blue with no clouds. Travelling home the weather was more typical winter… cold, windy and cloudy skies. During the last week I encountered rain on most days. The drive to the overnight stay at Burra showground was the heaviest.
Wirrulla
Overnight camp with wet & windy weather… a 1st in over 3 months.
Nullarbor Roadhouse
This iconic roadhouse is about “half” way between Norseman & Ceduna. It offers the basics which now include an EV station and the most expensive fuel on the Nullarbor. If you look more closely at the EV station photo you can see a diesel generator and tank needed to power EV’s… crazy!
Bunda Cliffs
I could not resist visiting this spectacular site for a second time (2020 being the first). The views are absolutely breathtaking. The cliff edge is less than 400m from the Eyre Highway.
Baxter Rest Stop
The truck road noise was minimal being set back from the highway about 100m. A really good free camp. There were a only a few other campers here overnight.
Kalgoorlie
Famous for the gold discovery in 1893 by Irish prospectors Paddy Hannan, Tom Flanagan and Daniel Shea, Kalgoorlie-Boulder continues to thrive with a multitude of mining and processing companies operating in the area. The City features some of the grandest turn-of-the-century architecture and character buildings.
Sandstone
Time for a break while driving from Mount Magnet to Leinster.
Not much sign of life in Sandstone
Sandstone was built on the back of gold mining
Albert Tognolini Rest Area
WOW, what a beautiful free camp location for an overnight stop. Very popular for good reason.
Homeward bound
After choosing the quickest route to return home, I departed Port Hedland late morning. Strong SE winds resulted in the worst fuel consumption ever… 26.2L/100km over a distance of 300km.
The following video covers the 1st 3 days of remote travel from Port Hedland to Mount Magnet
Port Hedland
Port Hedland is one of the world’s largest and busiest working harbours, filled with grand, austere ships that transport hundreds of millions of tonnes of cargo each year to distant places, tracing new and old trading routes through the seas. Operations on this scale are often on a city’s outskirts, invisible as well as inaccessible. But in Port Hedland, the coming and going of ships from dusk to dawn are part of daily life and that is one of the unique qualities of this remote town on the northwest coast of Australia.
Seafarer’s Tour
Smaller Panamax ships can travel through the Panama Canal.
Salt Industry Tour
Ore trains are up to 2.8km in length
Faulty inverter needs replacing…
It took just over 2 weeks for the inverter to travel from Karratha to Port Headland. Instead of being shipped direct the inverter went via Perth!!
