The Pilbara Coast

Since leaving the renowned national parks of the Pilbara we have been exploring its coastline. On Tuesday morning it was rock rambling near Karatha in search of aboriginal rock art. We found many fine examples but that wasn’t surprising as the site has many thousand engravings. After lunch we traveled an hour up the road to Point Samson where we spent a rest day and a couple of nights. Adrian got the rods out for the first time and caught us our supper.

We then traveled to Port Hedland where we had planned to stay for a couple of days but after lunch and a quick look around we decided to keep moving and arrived at Eighty Mile Beach just on sunset. The brochures said that this was a good place for shell collecting. Joy was in her element; she found some in the half dark and was up at the crack of dawn in search of more. It was lucky we had to be out of the park by 10am or she would have walked the whole 80 miles.

We arrived in Broome yesterday and went to the movies at the world’s oldest continually operating garden cinema last night. We sat in the front row of deck chairs under a starry night sky. Just as the film was getting to an exciting bit, fireworks from a nearby carnival started. The movie was paused until the fireworks crescendo.

We’ve decided we need a holiday, so we booked in for 5 nights.