Day 19 of our tour.
Regroup at Pardoo Roadhouse at 10am.
Destination Port Hedland.
Time on the road 3hrs 15 minutes.
Distance to travel 250 kms.
Bit of an interesting start to the day. Everyone made their own way to Pardoo. Due to 9 kms of corrugations from the van park people left according to their travel speeds. Some in motor homes travelled at 20 kms/hr, we travelled at about 75-80 as the road was in pretty good condition.
We had time for coffee at Pardoo. We were to stay in a free camp at the Turf club tonight but we just found out that the races are on in Port Hedland and the town is very busy so the group has decided to go to a free camp about an hour further on. We will decide what to do when we get to P.H and see for ourselves. We had a few things on our list of things to see & do.
Lots of big boys on the road today.
Coming into Port Hedland.
Piles of salt
Painted gas bottles.
Lots of boats on the horizon.
We had lunch at Rays Hotel with Mike & Jan from our tour group.
Oopsy we went into a restricted area and quickly did a u turn. It was a Rio Tinto site.
Dalgety House Museum was closed so we couldn't visit.
Not sure what this art work represents 🤷♀️
We finally worked out why the streets were empty and most things were closed...it's a public holiday 🤦🏽♀️
'Today is an alternative date for the King's Birthday public holiday, moved to coincide with local community events like the Hedland Cup rather than the September date used by the rest of Western Australia'
2 other couples James & Julie and Peter & Chris are also staying at the Port Hedland golf course. A few others elected to stay at the Discovery Caravan Park but the majority went to a rest area about an hour further along the Great Northern Hwy. We also discovered we had been given misinformation and the races were yesterday. The Turf club where we were originally going to stay was pretty full when we drove past.
Today we travelled 255kms, for a total of 5,535. The cruiser did another ~55kms driving around exploring.
Todays temperature range was 16-30°. There was a cool breeze coming off the Indian Ocean.
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