Monday, 19 August 2013

Day 40 - Port Hedland

Well we have arrived in Port Hedland and are settled into a caravan park near a train line so Rob (the Doc) and Paul are feeling right at home!
We spent lunchtime down watching the big ships arrive ready for filling with iron, salt, manganese of whatever else goes out from here. Over 199 million tonnes for goods are exported from this port, so as you can imagine it is a bustling, busy port: let alone dirty and dusty. (Everything has that red colour about it, including buildings and cars).
Today and tomorrow will be catch up days for washing, shopping and hopefully I'll even find an optometrist to get my eyes checked. Not that I can tell anything, just that my doctor asked me to get them checked about halfway through our trip. (Apparently my pressures are a bit high at present).
Well after downloading all the photos from our trip and trying to upload some to this blog, time has slipped away and everyone else is having happy hour therefore I MUST go and be sociable! Ta, Tah.


Salt being mined at Port Headland (RIO TINTO owned)

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