mid May
The rain and the cold drove us out of
the East Pilbara. It rained from 2pm one
afternoon all through the night so in the morning as it had stopped we packed
up the tent quickly to escape. The track
out was getting pretty bad. We stopped
again at Marble Bar where the ‘hottest town in Australia’ was recording a
temperature of 18 degrees!
We drove down Doolena Gap to Doolena
Gorge to take a look and it was another pretty, free campsite. Then we headed out to Shay Gap, over the De
Grey River which pretty much marked the end of the Pilbara for us. No more
pretty hills or mountains to surprise us.
But we hit the plains and found our first camel for the trip!
Collecting shells along Eighty Mile
Beach was a nice way to while away a few hours (and we caught up on our washing
with the $2 a load washing machines) and then we headed to Broome.
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