Wendy at the southern end of Cable beach in Anastasias pool, cut into the rock by the original light house keeper at Gantheaume point for his arthritic wife. The pool is refilled by the high tide each day.


Sunset at Anastasias pool

21st Nov we depart Broome, it's getting really hot and humid now so looking for cooler climate.
Made it to the De Grey river, 80 ks north of Port Hedland,  stopped  at a spot right on the river , not flowing but some substantial pools remain.
Next day drove into Port Hedland looking for the hospital for blues blood test, there were lots of road works, detours and impatient drivers, looked at each other and in unison said we're out of here.

Just out of town we had to pull right of the black top to allow the passage of two of the biggest heavy transport we've seen.
There are 10 wheels on each transverse axle line, there would be close to 200 tyres on the road.

We pressed on to Roebourne established 1866, just out of Karratha. Roebourne is an old historic town with the old stone prison now used as a museum and information center, well done, worth the time to look and the lady on duty was very helpful and knowledgeable about the area.
Moved on out to Point Samson and settled into a caravan park right on the water front.
This is very nice area of the Pilbara when away from the immediate vicinity of ore loading facilities and gas processing plants.
Point Samson is about 25k's north of Roebourne on the Cape Lambert peninsula. About  40k's  west is  the Burrup peninsula  with Dampier on its West side. Karratha is about half way between the two peninsulas  being the  service center for  the region.The Montebello islands (nuclear test site way back)  along with many others are nearby in the Dampier archipelago, great fishing.
The Burrup side has most of the industrial infrastructure with new port and ore loading facilities under construction, very busy with lots of new roads and upgrades underway.You can see the Red Dog statue over here also.
The Point Samson side has the old town of Cossack established 1872, just a few k's from Samson, very nice location with only a few old stone buildings remaining, these have been preserved and worth a look. The area has a history of , pearling (shell), gold rush, agriculture (grazing),and mining .
When Roebourne was established it was the only town between Geralton and Darwin,  not so long ago in the scheme of things.
Makes you wonder what it will look like in another 100 years, We would have stayed a little longer but still very hot so off we go again.

This Light house at Pt Samson was made in England from cast iron sections in 1866, transported here and erected by prisoners from the Roebourne prison a year later. It had a four wick kero light that was lit every night by the keeper  until 1917  when it was automated and continued until decommissioned in 1985. 

Old court house in Cossack restored and houses memorabilia of the times. Awesome, seems to be in the middle of nowhere, most of the original buildings in the town were destroyed by cyclone. Just a stones throw to the old port.

Set off again after a few days and turned off the highway into Onslow. Was a nice little town but now the caravan parks are full of transportable dongas housing the oil and gas workers. We were told they need another 35000 workers in the short term and there was a procession of trucks bringing more dongas
as we drove out stopping only for fuel.
We took a track to the site of old Onslow township, now abandoned. The track turned into soft sand  requiring a tricky turn around. We found a spot on the Ashburton river to stay the night.

Blue ever hopeful thought there might be a fish


Next morning we drove back to the highway with a nice covering of red pindan mud and dust  from the dirt track and  headed for Exmouth
which we will cover in the December issue.