The capital of Western Australia has an interessting history and lots of nice places to visit. Broome is the world leader of south sea pearls in best quality, but not only this, Broome its self is a „pearl“ to has be seen and visit. Its is located in a mild and beautyful clima part of…
Author: Snoopy
Cape Leveque, 4. July 2019
More in the north of Broome, about 200 km, there you find Cape Leveque. This is an absolutly amazing and beautiful spot on our earth. It is owened and run by the Aboriginals Bardi Jawi Comunity. The Kooljaman wilderness camp at Cape Leveque is absolutly unique and a natural place withe at least no competition….
Sandfire Roadhouse to Broome, 4. July 2019
Heading north on the Great Northern Highway the next City will be Broome. To have a comfortable trip, we are going to stopp at the Sandfire Roadhouse after nearly 300 km. The second part to Broome, another 320 km we will drive on the next day. For Aussies it‘s more then usually to go for…
Iron ore roadtrains and railway, 3. Juli 2019
At least I wrote of the impressive and incredible long raodtrains and railways trains, which are transporting the irone ore of Pillbara. The roadtrains are transporting the iron ore only for short distances, what ever short mean in Australia. Usually only 50-100 km. On the contrary the railway trains are transporting the iron ore for…
Eco salt tour at Port Hedland, 2. July 2019
When ever possible everyone should take some time at Port Hedland to go for one of the tours which are very well advertised. The BHP tour was not available because the visitor center has a change in management, it would be a tour about mining and finally shipping the iron ore of Pillbara all over…
Port Hedland, 1. July 2019
At Port Hedland you find a huge and impressive harbour destricts where the loading docks of world tanker are situated. The loading includes Iron Ore, Salt and other inportant stuff. Those port destricts belongs to BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. Both of these comanies are leading in Australia and also with big shares at the…
Karratha, 29. June 2019
Further up north you find Karratha, which is located in the famouse Pilbara Shire. This shire has, as nearly every shire in Austriala nice national parcs. One of the famouse one is the Karijini National Parc. The Montebello Islands are also closed to Karratha and these islands are forming a group of nearly 100 limetone…
Onslow, 27. June 2019
The last two days we made 1060 km on the road to escape the rain and cold weather in the south part of Western Australia. It was worth it, yesterday at Carnarvon we found some sunny moments and a little bit warmer weather but still some rain. Carnarvon is a small city which most of…
Mullewa, 25 June 2019
We go further direction north in Western Australia. On our trip from New Norcia to Mullewa we pass Perenjori. This small village is amazing. Nice and grand caravan park (some years ago, we stayed here for some days) and the surrounding is interessting and beautyful. It is Western Australias Destrict of Wildflowers where you may…
New Norcia, 24. Juni 2019
The check-up of the Bushcamper is done, everything is on its place and our journey to Darwin is getting started. The first part is a short trip of only 150 km because we stay at New Norcia. This is Australia’s only monastic town. The monastery was founded by in 1847 by spanisch benedictine Monks and…