DAY 32 Pilbara – Kimberley Trip
MILLSTREAM CHICHESTER NATIONAL PARK – ROEBOURNE, KARRATHA
Yesterday I mentioned that we were relaxing in quiet surroundings. What a joke! It was a very noisy night – cicadas, birds, frogs. Woke to a beautiful sunny day after a hot humid night. After breakfast we went back to Python Pool for a swim/wash and then made our way to Roubourne.
The reflections in the water at Python Pool were really clear this time of the day.
As we travelled on the radio there were comments about the wild weather during the weekend and the number of cars stranded at roadhouses waiting for rivers and creeks to fall.
The scenery again had changed. It was flat except for distant unique low ranges and strange rocky outcrops that would appear out of nowhere as if someone had dumped a number of huge loads of broken boulders.
At Roebourne we visited the Old Goal – the current information centre. A lovely little museum inside presented a history of the goal as well as the local community.
A banner caught my eye. It was a community project in an attempt to bring local indigenous women together to work in harmony to produce a piece of work that captured their art and culture. The final piece consisted of repeated screen printed images on calico squares. A beautiful piece of work. As I can’t get the photo to go in correctly, it keeps appearing on its side, so I’ve enclosed a picture of one of the panels.
We decided to see more of Roebourne on the way back as we made decision to go to Karratha based on information we got at the visitor’s centre. We wanted to see if we could get two tyres for the car and hubby is still not happy with the car electrics. He believes that the batteries are not being charged fully.
Karratha is Pilbara’s main centre. It is a pleasant place but very expensive. The caravan park fees at the Pilbara Holiday Park were going up tomorrow by $10 a night as the season was starting. We paid $37 for one night. Yet the park did not have their barbeque area built yet or the 2nd camp kitchen, which they need because of the size of the park and miniscule size of the other camp kitchen. You cannot get a one bedroom flat here for under $700 per week. There is a huge housing shortage for the workers let alone tourists coming through.
Whilst Karratha may be the centre of Pilbara for supplies we had no luck in getting tyres. Hubby decided to wait till Broome as he will have time there if they have to be ordered in. He got quoted $470 for a road tyre, which was not what he was after, or wait a week to get something suitable in. He was after an on and off road tyre. Also no luck in getting an auto electrician to check the electrics unless we were prepared to stay here for over a week.
We met a lovely family from Germany travelling with two young children. This reminded us of when we took three of our children for several months to Europe when they were young.
As day light saving is finished we got caught out and ended up cooking in the dark. Another hot humid night ahead.
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