Salt stacks, 80 miles of sand and camels

After fire ushered us out of Karijini, we moved on to Port Hedland. The place has a bad write up as only an industrial town with not much going on. We bucked the advice and stayed next to a golf course for a tenner(!), there were loads of warnings about snakes which was a little off-putting! All the sources of natural water had warnings about recent croc attacks, so we ended up in their Olympic sized swimming pool for a cool down. There was a nice art gallery and we had coffee in a real silver train carriage. Here's me in front of a big pile of salt, I am impressed honest, it's just the heat that has made me look so depressed!

We moved on with the extreme heat to 80 mile beach and got to see loads more turtles, flat back ones this time. We even got to see one laying eggs, amazing!!

Upon arriving in Broome. We decided it was just too hot, so checked into an air con room costing double a normal tent pitch. Worth it considering the 40 odd temperatures we are enjoying at the mo. We did all sorts in Broome, including being extras in a film called High Tide in the oldest open air cinema in the Southern Hemisphere (we went back the next night to actually watch a film!) and riding a camel at sunset!

It was such good fun riding the camels. We both had trainee ones that had been wild six months ago! We're still trying to figure out if they are better off now or not, at least they get carrots at the end of the ride.......

The walk was on Cable Beach which is regarded as one of the top five beaches in the world. We did love it, but pretty sure we have seen better (I keep thinking of the big red sun on Chowpatty Beach in India).

Lots of driving towards Darwin now, the rain has moved in .....