The Pilbara, Cape Keraudren

We are making our way slowly down the coast of Western Australia and have reached Port Headland, not before we visited 80 Mile Beach and Cape Keraudren National Park.

                                                                   80 Mile Beach

                                                         

80 Mile Beach was beautiful but we headed down the road a bit to Cape Keraudren because it was going to be a bit cheaper. Tried a bit of fishing to no avail, I hear a quote the other day "Australia's most sustainable fisherman" that's me. :-) We had a good time fishing though and enjoyed the massive sea turtles cruising by us while we fished.

When we got to Cape Keraudren national Park we were glad. We had our choice of camps and $12 for a night for the two of us instead of $41 at 80 Mile. Better views at the cape as well.

As mentioned we are in Port Headland at the moment looking at the job situation as there is a lot of money to be made here is town. Our initial gut feeling though is that we don't like the place as it feels like the town is a massive mine site. I mean everything! Shopping centers, roads and caravan parks. Just a sea of high vis. Might head to Karratha. We'll see.

Broome............Again.

We had an uneventful trip from Kununurra to Broome, free camping along the way and taking it pretty easy. As we approached Broome the weather got hotter and more humid as we got closer, the day we arrived it was high 38 degrees and filthy humidity!

We caught up on some washing, saw a few friends and got a few running repair jobs on the van done, including insulating the poor 12v fridge as in this hot humid weather as it struggles a bit. I encased the fridge in high density refrigeration foam and it seems to have made a difference, free camping will be the tell tale.

We spent the obligatory sunset on Cable Beach one night and had a couple of quiet beers. Always good to see the sun set over the water.

This time we are off down the west coast as we set out to do a couple of years ago, looking at stopping at 80 mile beach to have a look. 80 mile is half way between Broome and Port Headland and the fishing is supposed to be good, we'll see!