Tom Price to Onslow

Hopefully you won’t find this posting tooo boring ie. lots of mining stuff.

Tom Price

Township that services a large open cut iron ore operation.

Jane next to one of the big trucks.
Big hole in the ground.
View of Tom Price from Mt Nameless … and those blasted trains kept us awake all night long!
Sunset view of Hamersley Ranges from Mt Nameless

Point Samson

Pretty little spot but very very very windy … another sleepless night! Spent the day exploring Roebourne and the old township of Cossack.
Karratha/Dampier

Visited the North West Shelf Gas Venture information centre … very interesting

The flame is normally the size of the smaller flame however gas productions were being increased due to the Apache gas explosion.
While we were out in search of a good fishing spot we were luckily enough to spot the LNG tanker setting sail to China or Japan to deliver its cargo of gas.
Coastal area of Dampier … piles of red rocks everywhere looks as if someone has dumped them but they are naturally forming.
Iron ore ships being loaded.

The whole works … train compartments after the ore has been dumped, the stockpiles, the dust being settled with water, and the ships in the background being loaded.
Dampier salt overflow ponds beside the roads … so white compared to the red iron ore.
Onslow

Certainly not happy campers!!! This is the storm front we drove thru and then had to setup camp. Two very very very wet girls and if we had been in better moods we may have had photos but nope none taken. Other campers that were already setup had tarps, tents, pegs ripped out of the ground as the storm went thru.
Spent the following day exploring Onslow and found a nice spot to fish but kept losing our hooks and didn’t catch anything that was big enough to keep. Lorraine finally used her new pink fishing rod and its heaps better then her old one ... just need to catch something other then rocks with it.

Ship being loaded with Onslow salt.

Truck dumping the salt.
Stock piles.

Night view.