Last night's sunset at Eighty Mile Beach.
Dolphins played while we watched.
What an impressive cloud formation.
Eighty Mile Beach is great for fishing and shell collecting.
We are just a small part in the scheme of things.
These palm trees are the only unscathed trees after the last wet season's cyclone.
Most of the caravan park was left bare of vegetation. Some of the trees (what was left of them) are just starting to re-sprout.
Much of the cattle was sandblasted and did not survive the destructive winds.
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Thursday 10th June: Karijini National Park to Port Hedland. 363Km.
Friday 11th June: Port Hedland to Eighty Mile Beach Caravan Park. 280Km.
The temperature has quickly risen since leaving Karijini. I really don't know how people can permanently live in these parts.
Snowing in the Blue Mountains?
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Petrol:
Port Hedland: $1.50 per litre.
Pardoo: $1.67 per litre.
Sandfire: $1.66 per litre.
We don't use LPG any more...just too expensive (up to $1.22 per litre). Our weekly petrol spending has almost doubled since leaving the eastern states.
Western Australian living is very expensive.
In the mining towns, tenants are paying anything from $1500 to $2000 per week rent. Housing, if you can buy it, is closer to one million dollars. Eating out is expensive, holiday accommodation is too because, (as happened in Port Hedland) workers in the mining industry live there also.
There is a critical shortage of housing. Too bad if you're the one still earning twenty two dollars an hour (as compared to mining industry employees earning six figure annual salaries)! Local business find it hard to keep staff because most prefer to work for the mining companies because they earn more there.
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