Not much had happened today…just mostly driving. I was planning to go to Dampier Peninsula but apparently it only open to visitors Monday to Friday. So another destination bite the dust 🙁 Never mind…plenty more places to visit. So the only choice was to head south. Port Hedland pretty much was the only town after Broome and it was over 600km away. I left Broome at 6:30 and arrived just after midday.
Had another scare today with the tyre when I arrived Port Hedland. I thought another tyre might have a puncture as well as it looked a bit flat. All services in Port Hedland (maybe the whole WA) closed half day for Saturday and don’t open until Monday. So what do I do?? Panic a little…
Greg suggest checking the air pressure so I did. All 3 tyres except the one I changed the other day were way over the recommended pressure. It dawned on me that the service I had in Alice Springs. They must have bumped all the tyres way too much and that’s probably why the tyre blew on the dirt road. It simply had no give….. damn. So set all the tyres to what they should be and the car felt much better and… I felt much better 🙂
Didn’t really want to stay in Port Hedland as it is a major mining town. BHP, Rio Tinto…they are all there in force. Another product here, salt. So drove another 200 odd km to Dampier where I planned to get to today. It has a much nicer settings. I could also see that salt is one of this town’s (or Rio Tinto) main source of income. The salt farm here is huge.
I got here just before sunset so didn’t have time to look around. Will do that tomorrow. So a short and uneventful post today.
xox
John @ Dampier, W.A.
Images: 1. Port Hedland; 2. Salt Farm in Port Hedland; 3. Sunsetting at Dampier
