Roxy and Linda's Australia Blog

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We started the day in Tom Price, a mining town in the Pilbara region and ended in Karijini National Park. We've been staying in caravan parks with a variety of amenities. The parks are quite large, many with over 100 sites, both powered and unpowered. There is always an ablution block with toilets, showers and often laundry & clothesline. Amenities also include kitchen area & BBQ (barbie). The caravan park visitors include travelers, Aussies on holiday with kids & gray nomads (retired folks wandering).

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We’ve seen live kangaroos but they’re too quick for a picture. There have also been sections of road with quite a few roadkills.
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Our day often starts with a walk in search of a mocha.

In Tom Price we went on a tour of the Rio Tinto iron ore mine. The mine has been in operation since the mid 1960’s and expects 40 more years of production. 5 ore trains, 2.5 km long consisting of 236 cars leave the mine each day traveling to ports for export.
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This is one of the huge holes.
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Often our first stop in town is visitor information. Most of them are staffed with friendly folks who are happy to share their knowledge of the local area.
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We spent the night at Karijini Eco Retreat in the National Park. It was a basic campground, no powered sites, WiFi or cell service. We did have a solar shower and lots of bush flies.

The draw of Karijini is the gorges. We did a walk to Joffre Gorge overlook and then down into the gorge. The waterfall was dry due to the lack of rain.
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There was water in the pool at the bottom of the gorge.
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