Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Bit of a slow day today. I walked the Last Mile cattle track this morning. The track commemorates the old-time drovers who used it to move their cattle from the cattle holding paddock. Cattle were brought into town by the drovers, and rested and fattened up at a series of grassed and watered paddocks leading up to the last one, One Mile from the wharf.  Apart from the wharf, there's not much to look at or do in and around town. We revisited Mowanjum, the Aboriginal Art Centre out along the Gibb River Road and at first view it is quite depressing as the grounds look as if they haven't been touched since it was built in 2006. Inside is spotless and they have a very interesting short movie explaining the three aboriginal peoples that now call the area home and how they are all linked and bonded by a common believe in the  wandjina spirit being. The artworks themselves are very different from other aboriginal art, in fact some of them seem to have had an islander inful...

We had been one step in front of a massive storm front moving across most of WA from Port Hedland down. Each day, the place we had been in the day before has had torrential rain and howling gales. Eighty Mile Beach is 300 km from Port Hedland, and we could still see that menacing cloud formation directly to the west. The forecast had rain overnight and we were a bit concerned that if it was too much rain overnight, the people that own the place might close that dirt access road until it dries out. Usually the patter of rain on the roof can be quite soothing, but it was persistent and growing heavier each hour. Finally at 06:30 it was time to move: get out before they had a chance to determine the state of the road. We got up and got out, back to the highway by 730. There was no drama, the road was at least smoother than yesterday, but you could see how more rain could cause problems. back at the highway after visiting Eighty Mile Beach WA First stop was only 45km up the road at...