Port Hedland to Karratha

A map of the route we took. Hedland to Karratha is usually about 240km. We stretched that to about 1000. Here are some of the amazing sights we saw along the way.

Camp for the first night was Bea Bea rest area on the Great Northern Hwy in the Chichester Range.

After leaving Port Hedland at lunch time we set up camp at Bea Bea rest area which is 206km south of Hedland on the Great Northern Highway.
There was a lot of road train traffic 2, 3, 4 and some even 5 trailers long.
The Great Northern Highway does have a lot of rest areas along the road, most of them being quite close to the road some do offer camping further back from the road.
After leaving Bea Bea rest area on the morning of day 2, we headed to Karijini National Park. We didn't stay long in Karajini as we had seen a lot of the sights on previous trips. We had to tick off two more of the more popular walks before leaving the region though. We decided on the popular "Handrail Pool" which is a part of Weano Gorge and "Kermits Pool" which is in Hancock Gorge. The latter is named after the late Lang Hancock, who we all love for leaving his mining royalties and billions to his daughter Gina.

Cin having a swim in Hancock Gorge on the way to Kermit's Pool.

 Kermit's Pool in Hancock Gorge, Karajini National Park.

 On the way through Hancock Gorge. Note the K-Mart reef shoes, worth their weight in gold for walking like this. We were both very happy we had them. 

 Joe Blake. A medium sized Brown Snake cooling off in Hancock Gorge. He was there on the way in and an hour later on the way out. Not fazed at all by the hordes for tourists. 

Trees growing out of the rocks in the gorges are pretty impressive.

At a later date we will update this with a few more photos of Karijini from our previous trips out there.

Cossack

Cossack was the port of the Roebourne region before Dampier was around. Cossack became unusable to ships coming in and out of the area after cyclones and heavy rains silted up the mouth of the creek system making it too shallow for ships to passage. 

The stone jetty at Cossack. We attempted to fish there, it was a bit too shallow. On a big tide it might be better.

This is the old Cossack courthouse. It is now a really interesting museum to the pioneers of the region and the lives of people who lived in Cossack.

 The view from the Cemetry, Cossack

 A shipwreck off the coast. It lies in the waters between Cossack at Point Samson.

 Iron Ore carriers sit off the coast waiting for their turn to come into the port at Wickam to be loaded. Wickam is a port operated by Rio Tinto Iron Ore.

 The road looking back towards to Cossack cemetery from the lookout.

Lighthouse on an island off the coast of Cossack.