We're there!!

The road that keeps on going.....

So..... we made it to Port Hedland.
No more punctures (just as well) and the tyre seemed to go fine (the one with the slow leak).
We stopped at Pardoo Roadhouse for breakfast,. Having left Sandfire at about 4:30am, we managed to travel in the cool of the day and save tyres. We are staying at the Anglican church in South Hedland, and we arrived there about 10:00am. We managed to navigate the streets pretty well. We haven't seen traffic lights for a while, and it was weird to see them. Darwin was the very last place where we saw traffic lights.

Sunset over Port Hedland

Port Hedland is a big mining town. There is a big salt pile which you drive past on the way from Port Hedland to South Hedland, and the girls were very interested in how the salt farm works. The trains are some of the longest, and if you get stuck at a railway crossing and two trains cross, one after the other, you can be stuck there for 10 minutes. We saw a train coming, and got across pretty quick!!

When we parked in the car park to go shopping, it was a sea of fluro ( due to the flouro stripes on the mining utes.

The big salt pile at Port Hedland

Sunset over the port.

We also went on a shopping spree. When you haven’t been to a big town for a while, with lots of shops, you are apt to snap up bargains, especially when Kmart decides to sell off summer stuff, before summer has ended. We also got some more shirts for the boys and Dad (yes they are in the same size now!).

 We have a  1-2 weeks of work at the school, and that will bring us to the school holidays. We then will start heading down to Margaret River, ready for our Permaculture course in May.