Barn Hill, 80 mile beach and Karigini National Park piccies

80 mile beach, seashells everywhere, pretty water and a good place for fishing......not much else, as the water is far too shallow for good swimming......lot of sharks caught here (the harmless ones).

This is a salt 'farm' owned by Rio Tinto, just outside of port Headland. The machinery on the mound of salt on the right hand side is a massive bulldozer, not the type you see on roadworks, but the huge type you see in mines.

Emma in the spider walk part of Hancock gorge in Karigini.......this place (Karigini) allowed us to do so many things that would not be allowed in NSW National Parks.......several of the walks were low grade canyoning tracks that we just completed in swimmers (cos it was so hot). This waterfall track lead to a deep green pool......beyond that pool abseiling gear was required!


This is the beach at Barn Hill Station, about 150ks south of Broome. To diversify their business (beef cattle), the Barn Hill Station owners opened up their 53k's of beachfront coastline to caravaners and campers. Despite the beauty and ease of access, it was not busy at all, allowing us to get stretches of beach to ourselves.......just lovely

This is Hamersley Gorge in Karigini.....note the Mulla Mulla (purple wild flowers) in the foreground which lined all of the roads in the park, and also note the contorted slate in the background, which was caused by the collission of two plates millions of years ago, also weakening the rock with fractures, making the gorge through erosion. Geography lesson over!