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Cossack a Pearling Harbour Ghost Town

Whilst staying at Point Sampson we visited the deserted historical town of Cossack. At one point in the late 1890s this was a booming pearling harbor and has a number of historic buildings evidencing the boom town that… Read More

Murujuga National Park

From Point Sampson we visited the Murujuga National Park is WA’s newest national park only recognized in 2013. The site is nestled on the Burrup Peninsula at Deep George amongst the gas and iron ore industries. The Deep… Read More

Karratha and Point Sampson

The next day we drove into Karratha where we saw more of the trains. This is where the trains all come to unload the ore. We drove along the peninsula and got a view of the loading bays… Read More

The Railway Road to Millstrean Chichester NP

Andrew obtained his permit to drive the Rio Tinto Railway Road. We were we would see lots of trains and we did. Trains with empty carriages were heading to Tom Price and trains full of Iron ore were… Read More

Kermits Pool and Weano George

The next day after this having climbed two class 4 walks we felt brave enough to takle a class 5 and into Kermits Pool one of the gorges in the Weano Gorge. It was quite an adventure from… Read More

Karijini the amazing Pilbara

We were excited to arrive in the Pilbara after the gorgeous coast. When we arrived at Karijini we went to the information centre and booked our camping and we were told there had been two snake bites in… Read More

Tom Price the big Iron Mining Town

We had a big day driving after packing camp at Cape Range we restocked the food at Exmouth and headed for the Pilbara. On the way out we visited the Exmouth Light House which has amazing views. The… Read More

Swimming with Whale Sharks

After talking to the children and a couple of days of snorkelling in Coral Bay we decided to extend our stay a bit longer and booked onto a swim with the ‘whale shark’ adventure to ensure we had… Read More

Kalbarri, River Gorges, beaches and flies

On our last morning at Geraldton we visited the museum which was fantastic for the children they had a read and find hunt of information and a list for the children to each lick off (Bianca’s was pictures… Read More

Easter on the Nullarbor

Driving along the somewhat beautiful baron Nullarbor we had a lunch break at Head of Bight and visited an old abandoned Station Homestead ruin called Koonalda this old station homestead was built from recycled railway sleepers and windows… Read More