Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Point Samson & Karratha

Here's the princess at the entrance to the huge LNG (Liquified Natural Gas) Project at the Burrup Point north of Karratha. Apparently most of the gas is sold offshore to Asia??






At Dampier we passed salt flat areas where salt is harvested from these ponds and exported, mainly to Asia. On the way to Karratha/Dampier we hit our first 40+ degree temperature (41)






This isn't too clear but it's actually the Karratha Hospital which is mostly underground and has a large built up earth wall to deflect the cyclonic winds that frequent this area. In 1999 cyclone Vance came past here and hit Exmouth. In doing this Vance set the Australian record wind gust of 267km per hour.




This mammoth load was encountered on route to Karratha. No getting to the left hand side of the road for this beast, it's get OFF the road!!






This shot is of the 'staircase to the Moon'. It's a natural phenomenon that occurs when the full moon reflects on the mud flats with pools of water left by the receding tides...









From Port Hedland we travelled Southwest to Point Samson Which has another loading facility on the opposite side to the caravan park where we stayed- fortunately. We are in the hottest region of Australia for the next couple of weeks!!

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