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20150628  We arrived at the Karijini National Park information centre and grabbed a shower before heading to the camp grounds.  All parked up we decide to check out the Gorge for a short walk. Fortescue Falls at Dales Gorge It may be a long walk down rugged steps but once you reach the falls it is well worth it, if some older folk can walk down with a walking stick I'm sure we can.   A truly beautiful gorge with it's turquoise water which made it very inviting for a swim only it was far to cold for me, but that didn't phase the many back packers. Their were so many people climbing over the gorge face, that from below they looked like little ants. Fern Pool Up the track a bit is the even more beautiful Fern Pool, a spring fed permanent water fall surrounded by ferns and trees. I so wanted to go for a swim but when I watched a man jump in and say the expression on his face, that was enough for me. It's no...

20150624  Be on our guard when visiting Port Hedland we were told after a cat fight broke out between the locals in front of Woollies, and the police had a battle on their hands trying to control it but with the help of the Elders and a big bus all ended but the event left a bad taste in some of the residents mouth.   Well looks like we have no choose but to stay at Black Rock Caravan Park. Pretty Pool which is mostly use to exercise race horses but if yo'er looking for a more alluring site theirs a nudist beach on East Pretty Pool. Esplanade Hotel Built in 1904 at the cost of £5000 and it was the most prestigious of Port Hedland's three hotels.  On the veranda there was a barbers chair were the men would get there hair cut on Sunday as there was no Barber shop in town.  The jetty on the port where you can reach the jetty at any level of the tide. Leaving P...

20150616   Stopping at Sandfire Roadhouse which was established  1970 due to a petrol tanker braking down in the area and a demand for fuel from passing motorist was so great that a roadhouse was established. Sandfire apparently came from one of the last entries in Ludwig Lichardt’s diary about the sand being so hot it appeared on fire. At  the side of the store are many old items and memorabilia of the past floods. I have never seen an albino peacock and this fellow roams free on the grounds, I read it is nothing of the sort, it's technically a white peacock. Most outback pubs have a gimmick to attract the travellers passing through, this one was street signs & caps but in 1981 when mates of  trucker  Tom Sheehan decided to forcible trim the sleeves off his ragged shirt which evolved into raising money for the R.F.D.S.  To become a member, cut off your sleeve & pin it to the roof.  For th...