5 October - School Day, Macrophotography

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School Day, Macrophotography

Today was a shortened school day for Hayden.  I started the day by wandering around the campground taking photographs of some of the wildflowers – delightful!
https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/park/karijini  I also spent some time photographing the shells we had collected at Eighty Mile Beach.  After Hayden finished his school work for the day, we went to Dales Gorge.  We walked from Fortescue Falls to Circular Pool, and then climbed up to Three Ways Lookout and back along the gorge rim.  Circular Pool was cold but beautiful – very refreshing.  I think we will all have an early night tonight. https://www.australiasnorthwest.com/explore/pilbara/karijini-national-park/dales-gorge  https://www.westernaustralia.com/en/Attraction/Dales_Gorge_and_Circular_Pool/56b266a42cbcbe7073ae0508#/  https://parks.dpaw.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/downloads/parks/Dales%20Gorge%20Aerial%20photo%20of%20walktrails.pdf

1 October - Broome to Port Hedland (almost)

1 October 2016 – 188 378

Broome to Port Hedland (almost)

This morning we had a slow start and left Broome just before ten am.  It was 30 degrees when we left Broome, 2 hours later it was 21 degrees and raining.  We have not had to use our wipers for rain (just to clean dust off the windscreen) since Emerald in June.  We were all freezing while we had our lunch (thankfully under a picnic shelter). From here we drove to Eighty Mile Beach, where we were considering staying at the caravan park. http://www.eightymilebeach.com.au/ We went down to the beach to collect shells and the number of flies was incredible – this is by far the worst flies we have had anywhere on our trip so far.  Instead of staying, we collected our shells and headed on.  I had to pull off the highway for a pair of giant vehicles to pass with big mining trucks in – I assume we will see more and more of these now that we are in the Pilbara. We have stopped for the night at De Grey Free Camp, about 90km before Port Hedland.