Thursday 15 March 2012

Wednesday 14th March 2012 Day 13 Port Hedland to Broome WA

Left Port Hedland at 6am heading for Broome. As we were leaving Port Headland we ran pass  the oversized road trains that we passed yesterday only this time we where in the Kombi thinking they will have to pass us but they never did. Along the way there were heaps of cattle wandering all over the road in various spots they just stand there and look at you as if you are stupid. Also there were hundreds of lizards that stopped, pop their heads up and watch you come and dart either away or towards the kombi luckily as we were driving so slow we missed nearly all of them.

Cattle all over the road
Once again good old Boris the Kombi continued to suffer with the heat much like Darren its owner. To give it a rest I decided to track nine kilometres through sand, dirt and water to reach Eighty Mile Beach, we were the only ones there. We originally thought we could go for a swim to cool off but the tide was so far out and there were huge jellyfish washed up, so that was the end of a swim. The beach was covered in shells big ones, little ones, all different shapes and colours  I have never seen so many shells so thick.

The sandy muddy road to Eighty Mile Beach
Eighty Mile Beach
About two hundred kilometres from Broome it started to rain as storm clouds developed which Boris loved he finally cooled down and we could do 80 kph an hour wow!!!

We arrived at 5.30pm set up for the night and made our way to the local shops and bottle shop.

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