We are at the Racecourse camping ground. $10 per night for up to 3 nights. Water and dump site, that's all. The Racecourse is grass but the camping area is red dust
Our van shows the result of dusty roads.
The 578k drive was easy, not really anything to see unless you took off and went to the coast with its 80 mile beach (that's for another year). We stopped at a roadhouse and had our Dinner in the van, Brian had a 15 min sleep and off we went again.
Driving into the Port we were stopped due to an accident, one vehicle looked as if it had rolled & the other we saw towed away with right front crumpled, horrible. Just hope nobody was hurt. There are great areas of salt and mountains of salt. It is Rio Tinto Salt. On then to BHP Iron with thousands of rail wagons . We had a quiet night, about 20+ caravans on site.
This morning as we were having breakfast there was a strange sound 💦💦💦💦 yes rain drops, the first we have seen. Golly did it rain. Brian had a Dr appointment for some skin sun damage on his cheeks & I needed more scripts. A very nice Dr, bulk billing & 500 metres away from our van! All is well, a script for some cream and see Dr when we get home.
We drove around the wharf area where they were loading Salt and Iron Ore (not in the same boats) the salt trucks were busy on the road and crossing the weigh stations. It's the highest tonnage port in Australia servicing the mines of WA.
We couldn't really appreciate the esplanade due to the rain, it's very much a port with a moving population. 14,000 including the satellite town of South Headland 18k south. We went there just to see it & it was nicer because it was a town rather than a port. Still it rained.
I had hoped it would clean the van, but it's done a poor job of it
Tomorrow is forecast sun with some cloud & we are heading south west taking 2 days to get to 'Lighthouse Caravan Park, Exmouth' were we have booked for 5 nights.
Trip planning is quite something!!!!
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