TIME TO SAY GOODBYE TO NEWMAN

After around 18 months in Newman it is time to head back to Perth to spend some quality time with the family.  We took another trip up Radio Hill to take a last look at Newman town.

Some crazy people ride up the top of Radio Hill on their push bikes and time themselves racing down to the bottom, good luck with that one..... :)

KALGANS POOL

So after lots of work we had our relatives Barb and Bill come and stay so we thought we would show them some sights of East Pilbara.

There are many beautiful sights here and Kalgans Pool is one of them.  It's not that far from Newman as the crow fly's but the track to it is a bit ordinary.  The corrugations were pretty bad in sections but there were some pretty fun sections as well...

Some of the water ways looked a bit hectic and you definitely wouldn't navigate here in the wet season.

We caught the tracks just before the hot wet season but some of the tracks were still pretty deep.

The drive was pretty long from the Marble Bar road (1 hour 45 minutes) but it was worth it!

Beautiful!

Jeez dancing on water!

The cool, cool waters on a hot, hot day!

We headed back to see this iron ore train heading from Newman to Pt Headland

Over 4km of rail cars and 4 locomotives to push 600,000 tons of ore across the Pilbara

I have always wanted to film an entire train but managed to get close when the train was about 2/3 gone but impressive anyways

And so that was Kalgans Pool :)

WE GET WORK IN THE PILBARA

So once we got to the Ningaloo Coast our family gave us our bills and after I coughed and spluttered, fell off my chair and had to put a flannel to my forehead to think how poor we were!  We decided it was time to look for a job!!!!!!

So I got a job running this centre.  Pretty cool eh!

In this mining town with big trucks like this

Karen reckons she can move mountains!

Yep

to be continued.......

NINGALOO COAST

So after dropping Cale back at his work we headed back down to Exmouth with the intention of taking a look at the Ningaloo Coast.  

The countryside on way back from Cale's work

Wild flowers after the good rain in the area over winter

We arrive back at Judy and Steve's place

And head over to the Ningaloo Coast and set up camp at a place called Osprey.

This cockatiel thought he was going to get fed straight up.  Silly bird! 

Even though it was overcast the waters here are a beautiful tortoise blue. 

and this time of the year is great for the kite surfers

Beautiful

This fella was watching over us.  I believe it is the type of Osprey that is in this area.

Another bird in the area

We headed down to the gorge walk at Yardie Creek and we saw these people looking at the crossing at the mouth of the creek.

Hey mate you reckon I can make the crossing?

Yeah go for it!

Made it!

At the gorge there are boat tours you can take

The mouth from down the walk trail

Hey mate what you looking at!?

The gorge

CooooooooWeeeeee!

and back at the camp this fella was hanging around.  What's that smell?

Mmmmm, you smell sooooo good!

Hmmm, maybe not!

Hello there

The turquoise ocean 

and crabs with that

A long walk

Might buy me one of those kite things!

Spot the Kangaroo

Spot the Karen

As the day comes to an end

Just sit and contemplate the day

How about a beer with that just for contemplation purposes!

Tomorrow we head south towards home.