Apr 29, 2012 - Eighty Mile Beach

After 9 k's of corrigated road, we arrived to the most beautiful place of pristine beaches, shells you will not find anywhere else, and a fabulous caravan park. Although $37 a night it was worth every penny for the service we got. Fishermans paradise. I had Terry walking along the beach with me selecting the best of best shells.And he enjoyed himself as well. We met a couple from Vic who spend 6 months of the year fishing and also making mobiles from shells. This to me would have to be a huge WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Fantastic sunsets....

Oct 9, 2011 - Day 35 Cape Keraudren

We drove for about 5 hours today to start heading south. There's big stretches of nothing between sites on this coast. You pass huge cattle stations or mining areas with no small towns like you get in the east coast. We arrived at Cape Keraudren which was a remote camp site on the coast. The crystal blue water was inviting but the tide was so low that you had to walk for about 20mins to reach it.  We were walking over the flat sea bed toward the distant water and it looked like a barren lifeless moonscape. But slowly as we looked more...

Aug 10, 2010 - Karratha, Cape Keraudren and Port Smith

Ah the city.... Or at least the closest thing we have seen to a city in the last 3 months! Karratha was one big, bustling place. We were shocked at how different the atmosphere was! Everybody was in a huge rush, in contrast to the easy-going outback way. We only stayed as long as we needed to, picking up mail, getting a battery replaced in the car and restocking our food supplies. Then we were off. We forged past Port Hedland and made it to Cape Keraudren, right on the beach. It was whale season and we spotted whales every day as the...

Aug 1, 2010 - 80 Mile Beach

Once again the drive from Port Hedland to the turnoff to 80 Mile Beach was pretty dull and uneventful. However the 11km gravel road to the caravan park was something else. We had been told by some people whom we believed at the time to be “friends” (at Port Hedland) that the gravel road had been graded the previous week and “was as smooth as marble”. Well, unless aussie marble comes with the biggest corrugations you’ve ever seen, this was certainly not like any marble I’ve ever seen. The 11kms seemed to take a lifetime and I spent more time...

Oct 3, 2009 - Day 74 – Broome to 80 Mile beach – Who needs a fuel computer?

Courtesy of the boys we had another early start this morning. Taking advantage of this the boys sent Mummy off to the markets so that we could all go for a swim…..do you believe that? Maybe she volunteered. Back on Cable Beach we had a great time with our early morning swim. Aaron loves to crawl into the surf until one cleans him up and then he retreats to dry land, before repeating the whole process. Ev does all the same things without the crawling. We set off driving with two very tired boys who both soon fell asleep According to the...

Sep 15, 2009 - Broome to 80 Mile Beach

Leaving Broome we began the drive south to Port Hedland, a distance of 611km. For the most part the journey was through flat dry semi-desert country with no hills or ranges to break the monotony. There are quite a few large cattle stations along this lonely road and now and then we would pass large groups of cattle. Some of the cattle wander across the road and here and there we passed a dead cow at the roadside – no doubt a casualty of the huge road trains that travel up and down the highway. There are no towns on this road, just a couple...

Oct 17, 2007 - Broome to Eighty Mile Beach

Broome to Eighty Mile Beach We left Broome after a wonderful relaxing 12 days and headed south. Our aim is to be south of the 26th Parallel by the end of October, before the cyclone season sets in. After only about a 3-hour trip we decided to stay overnight at Eighty Mile Beach. The way in is about 15 km's of dirt road, which was quite corrugated so we took it nice and slow. We were not disappointed! The caravan park is like an oasis green as green right on the beach and everyone who went fishing, about 4pm, caught something and they were...

Oct 4, 2006 - 80 Mile Beach - shell collecting and fishing paradise

With football madness out of the way, shattered finals aspirations slowly healing, and no time to lose, we head off down the Great Northern Highway about 3 hours and arrive at dusk at 80 Mile Beach caravan park (yes, the beach IS 80 miles long!). Our evening is spent catching up on the weeks events apart, and also opening some belated birthday presents plus goodies Stu bought back from his travels. Will Henry also sent some presents for Mia and Freddie (thanks Bec!) so spirits are very high. Having visited 3 major cities and zigzagged all...

Jul 16, 2006 - Op weg naar Broome

Port Hedland hadden bereikt voor de avond. Maar het was apsoluut niks daar! Niks meer dan een industriestad, dus we hadden vlug besloten om daar te rijden in de richting van Broome. En daar sloeg het noodlot weer toe..De verlichting werd weer minder...accu!! dus wij stoppen, en toen bedachten we dat er een roadhouse zou moeten zijn in de komende 10 km. Dus we reden door, ongeveer 30 a 40 km/h, want hij ging niet harder, en dan stotterde de motor ook nog eens...Maar uiteindelijk hebben we het gehaald tot het pompstation. Daar hebben we het...