DSC_0009.JPG=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia; next day and Joys search for pretty shells.
14ToPilbaraPan03.JPG=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia; sunset and a low tide. (panorama)
19PtHedlandPan02.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Salt stockpile at the port. (panorama)
19PtHedland10.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; salt mine road trains under the Redbank Bridge.
Trains3.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; the caravan slabs at Cooke Point have these cyclone tie downs inserted in the concrete.
DSC_0007a.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; windblown sand waves beside the Pretty Pool Creek outflow.
DSC_0011a.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; 1940s managers office at the Dalgety House Museum.
19PtHedland6.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; at Leap Park opposite the Dalgety House Museum - silouette statues commemorate the 1946 Aboriginal station workers strike.
19PtHedland8.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; The grassed entrance to BHP iron ore loading facility has these very interesting animal sculpture. Very clever in the detail of intestines, backbone etc.
DSC_0001.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; aerial picture of the Port Hedland harbour (Internet pic)
18PtHedland10.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Mining equipment at the Don Rhodes Mining Museum. Top, (Euclid and Leyland Super Beaver) trucks that had been previously used on the Snowy Mountains scheme. Bottom; steam stationary engine.\

16Pardoo1 (2).jpg=Western Australia; leaving 80 Mile Beach on a very corrugated unsealed road. A flock of mainly Black Kites and one Brahminy Kite was the last to leave the road kill - just taking off in the centre of the main image and in air in the thumbnail image.
17PtHedland7.jpg=Western Australia; approaching Port Hedland we are now travelling beside the rail line contsructed and operated by Rio Tinto mining.
DSCN1267.JPG=Western Australia; sunset at 80 Mile Beach.\
					
FrontDiesels.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; the full length of the iron ore train passing.
DSC_0005.JPG=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia; next day and Joys search for pretty shells.
DSC_0012a.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; in this view from the Cooke Point caravan park, we can see Road Trains, an Iron Ore train and the enormous ship loading facilities on the harbour about 12km away. (panorama)
DSC_0011.JPG=Western Australia; School holidays and very busy at 80 Mile Beach caravan park.
DSC_0006.JPG=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia; next day and Joys search for pretty shells.
19PtHedland7.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; BHP's very interesting animal sculpture.
18PtHedland5.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; other memorials and the lookout tower adjoining Sculpture Park. At the bottom right is iron ore in the wheelbarrow.
17PtHedland8.jpg=Western Australia; Here's something you don't see every day. Miners hard hats placed on termite mounds - we had seen termite mounds wearing shirts/singlets before, but there would have been 50 of them in a group wearing the hard hats.
Sunset (01)red.jpg=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia; diverting from the Great Northern Highway we spent a couple of days here.
17PtHedland3.jpg=Western Australia; continuing on the Great Northern Highway, Black Kites at Pardoo Roadhouse.
DSC_0068.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; silouette of massive ships 12km away at the harbour viewed from the Redbank Bridge.
Sunset (07).JPG=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia;   "Staircase to the Sunset"\

DSC_0043.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; a bronze crocodile statue at the boat ramp. No explanantion, but maybe it's just to remind boaties that there could be crocs around ????
DSC_0032.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; harbour entrance.
DSC_0006a.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; iron ore train passing under the Redbank bridge.
18PtHedland3.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; art work called "Nothing Came By Road" uses timbers frrom the old jetty and is located in Sculpture Park. The motorcyclist is appropriately titled "Motor Bikes Revenge".
DSC_0010.JPG=Western Australia; on the Great Northern Highway some stunning wildflower displays.
DSC_0003.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Pretty Pool Creek meanders behind Cooke Point caravan park.
17PtHedlandPan01.JPG=Western Australia; continuing on the Great Northern Highway through the Pilbara mining region. (panorama)
DSC_0016.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia;  more shells washed up on the beach near Pretty Pool Creek.
DSC_0011b.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia;  Pretty Pool Creek where it enters the Indian Ocean.
Sunset (13).JPG=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia; sunset and a low tide.
DSC_0006b.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; A different spinifex variety in the sand dunes beside Pretty Pool Creek.
15_80Mile1.jpg=Western Australia; Masked Lapwing pair at 80 Mile Beach caravan park.
DSC_0031.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; even in the main street, an ore loading bucket wheel can be seen in the distance.
15_80MilePan01.JPG=Western Australia; campers gather to watch the sunset at 80 Mile Beach. (panorama)
DSC_0045.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; almost derelict looking, what had been the Australian inland mission hospital.
PrettyPoolPan02.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia;  Pretty Pool Creek where it enters the Indian Ocean. (panorama)
DSC_0041.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; harbour entrance public boat ramp.
Sunset (03).JPG=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia; in places the shells build up to be a thick cover high up on the beach.
DSC_0004.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; A different spinifex variety in the sand dunes beside Pretty Pool Creek.
DSC_0012d.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; some 12km away, the harbour lights at sunset on our last night at Cooke Point.
Sunset (12).JPG=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia;   "Staircase to the Sunset"
19PtHedland9.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; road trains carry the salt from mines to the harbour.
NightLightsPan03.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; some 12km away, the harbour lights late at night.
DSC_0009a.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; some 12km away, the harbour lights at sunset on our last night at Cooke Point.
18PtHedland11.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Public Works Dep crane and a monument to the Torres Strait Islander workers.
DSC_0116.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; This permanent sign, opposite the Don Rhodes Mining Museum certainly confirms that we are in a cyclone prone region.
18PtHedlandPan07.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; harbour entrance public boat ramp. (panorama)
DSC_0021.JPG=Western Australia; sunset at 80 Mile Beach.
18PtHedland2.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Dalgety House Museum.
18PtHedland9.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Mining equipment at the Don Rhodes Mining Museum. Left; a 1950s Harman Navvy. Right; two 1940s Tar Kettles.
19PtHedlandPan07.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; salt mine ponds viewed from the Redbank Bridge. (panorama)
18PtHedlandPan06.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; harbour entrance. (panorama)
DSC_0057.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Rio Tinto salt mine stockpile.
14ToPilbaraPan01.JPG=Western Australia; at speed on the Great Northern Highway between and Port Hedland it looks quite uninteresting, flat cattle country. For the 600kms, the highway follows the coastline but between 10 and 20km from the ocean. (panorama)
16_Pardoo.jpg=Western Australia; at speed on the Great Northern Highway some slight glimpses of colour can be seen. By stopping and walking some distance from the road, we're treated with some stunning wildflower displays
DSC_0053.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; When we stopped at Pardoo Roadhouse, about 200km from "Nowhere", we heard that they were out of Diesel fuel. Luckily we had enough to get us to Port Hedland. That made us think we could use 100km of spare diesel. So after we'd bought a fuel container people were smiling when we were on the scooter - maybe thinking we'd ridden from Queensland.
DSC_0007.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; iron ore train centre engines passing under the Redbank bridge.
18PtHedland1.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Back at the town centre to visit the Dalgety House Museum.
19PtHedland5.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; harbour Port Authority control tower.
CentreDiesels.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; iron ore train snaking toward the Redbank bridge.
DSC_0001a.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; At last we were able to get pictures of one of the long iron ore trains passing under the Redbank bridge.
DSC_0002.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; 3.75km long iron ore train passing under the Redbank bridge.
18PtHedlandPan01.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Harbour and Iron Ore train. (panorama)
19PtHedland3.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; at the Dalgety House Museum. \
Top; Mundabullangana Aboriginal station workers in 1912 ready to play against the white station owners and staff. \
Bottom; An 1890s picture of Aborigines prepared for a tribal ceremnony.
DSC_0018.JPG=Western Australia; continuing on the Great Northern Highway we stopped for the night at Pardoo Roadhouse (where they were sold-out of diesel fuel)
19PtHedland4.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; at the Dalgety House Museum is the story of the 1912 great tragedy of the loss of the SS Koombana with all 157 people on board.
18PtHedland8.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Mining equipment at the Don Rhodes Mining Museum. Top; WWII Valentine Tank converted to a mining bulldozer. Bottom Left; 1940s Allison Chalmers wagon drill. Right; made in Sydney, an Armstrong-Holland towed road machine.
19PtHedlandPan08.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Rio Tinto salt mine stockpile viewed from the Redbank Bridge. (panorama)
15_80Mile2.jpg=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia; Joys shell collection.
Sunset (08).JPG=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia; kids playing beach cricket with the tide out and about 300 metres of sand.
DSC_0012c.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; beach and Cooke Point.
DSC_0007b.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; some 12km away, the harbour lights at sunset on our last night at Cooke Point.
14ToPilbara.jpg=Western Australia; on the Great Northern Highway some stunning wildflower displays.
19PtHedlandPan01.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Salt stockpile at the port. (panorama)
Sunset (10).JPG=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia;   "Staircase to the Sunset"
18PtHedland4.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; adjoining Sculpture Park.
18PtHedland6.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; decorative grases near Sculpture Park.
DSC_0012b.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; the full length of the iron ore train passing.
18PtHedland.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; views from Koombana Lookout.
DSC_0079.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; the Don Rhodes Mining Museum.
DSC_0003crop.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; iron ore train snaking toward the Redbank bridge.
DSC_0034crop.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Bucket wheel loader at the port salt stockpile.
DSCN1251.JPG=Western Australia; sunset at 80 Mile Beach.
17PtHedland6.jpg=Western Australia; continuing on the Great Northern Highway through the Pilbara mining region. The turnoff to Marble Bar; statistically the hottest town in Australia.
DSC_0027.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; a large bulldozer handling the salt loading.
Sunset (04).JPG=80 Mile Beach, Western Australia; sunset and a low tide. There is a phenomenon in the north called "Staircase to the Moon" it only occurs on three nights each month from May to October (winter). That means that for a number of reasons, we may miss it. The effect though is quite like these sunset images where the light over the low tide sand seems to provide a pathway to the sun.
16Pardoo3.jpg=Western Australia; on the Great Northern Highway some stunning wildflower displays.
DSC_0030a.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; harbour entrance.
18PtHedlandPan03.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Indian Ocean view from Koombana Lookout. (panorama)
DSC_0013.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; another early "Windsor" at the Cooke Point caravan park.
DSC_0030.JPG=Western Australia; continuing on the Great Northern Highway through the Pilbara mining region.
18PtHedlandPan04.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; bulk carriers loading in harbour. (panorama)
DSC_0059.JPG=Western Australia; arriving in Port Hedland we passed this small coal stockpile where the mixture of red soil and black coal dust created the unusual road colour.
18PtHedland7.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Mining locomotives at the Don Rhodes Mining Museum.
19PtHedland2.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Back at Cooke Point, these tiny Peaceful Doves are very common.
DSC_0005a.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; in the sand dunes beside Pretty Pool Creek.
DSC_0035crop.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Salt stockpile at the port.
DSC_0010a.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; the water tower at Koombana Lookout
17PtHedland5.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; just before we got to the Cooke Point caravan park, we passed by the Rio Tinto salt mining operation.
DSC_0012.JPG=Western Australia; School holidays and very busy at 80 Mile Beach caravan park.
14ToPilbara1.jpg=Western Australia; on the Great Northern Highway some stunning wildflower displays.
DSCN1250.JPG=Western Australia; sunset at 80 Mile Beach.
DSC_0022.JPG=Western Australia; sunset at 80 Mile Beach.
DSC_0010b.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; sand formation from wind and waves beside the Pretty Pool Creek outflow.
googleB.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia; Google Earth image of the area. The white areas are the Rio Tinto salt mine of 9000 hectares.
19PtHedlandPan04.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; BHP iron ore loading facility (panorama)
DSC_0024.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; wall art behind the police station.
Trains1.jpg=Port Hedland, Western Australia;  iron ore train diesel locomotives.
DSC_0020.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; looking out to the Indian Ocean at Koombana Lookout with a fleet of about 20 bulk iron ore carriers are waiting to berth.
DSC_0015.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia;  Pretty Pool Creek where it enters the Indian Ocean.
NightLightsPan02.JPG=Port Hedland, Western Australia; some 12km away, the harbour lights at sunset on our last night at Cooke Point. (panorama)
DSC_0019.JPG=Western Australia; continuing on the Great Northern Highway the counryside changes again as we approach Port Hedland through the Pilbara mining region.
