No adventure would be complete without a bit of "bush camping". We stopped one night at a road side
camp area and of course had a campfire. We cooked our tucker on a camp oven and our burgers never
tasted so good. We then drove inland to the town of "Tom Price". The town was named after Thomas Moore Price who worked for the American company, Kaiser Steel. In the early 1960's he was instrumental in convincing the mining companies that the area was worth mining due to its rich iron ore deposits.
Today the area is one of the biggest mining areas in Western Australia. The huge mountain pictured here is called Mount Nameless. Interestingly, the aboriginal name for it is "Jarndrunmunhna". It would have been more appropriate to call it Mount Unpronounceable but that's just my theory!
We then drove to Port Headland for a look around the town. There is a salt mine here and supports a large
trucking business. The massive trucks called "road trains" haul enormous amounts of iron ore out of the area.
The one in the photo hauls 180 tons and has 180 tires, one for each ton. Bob couldn't help being in awe of them and also the giant dump truck that was being transported to one of the mines. We then made our way to 80 Mile Beach which is 80 miles long, hence the name! It is covered in shells and everyone loves driving along the beach or sitting and watching the sun sets. We had to drive into the caravan park along a red dirt road for about 22 kilometers and even the cows were amazed as we drove by. The park is actually part of a
cattle station and covers over 500,000 acres. That's a lot of land folks!
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