Karratha
We are now in Karratha thank goodness. I found 6 nights in Onslow enough-especially as the fishing and crabbing wasn’t so good.
Karratha is a service town for the mining, gas and oil and salt production that goes on nearby. It’s not the prettiest of towns but it has 2 supermarkets, banks and restaurants, so it’ll be fine for a week. Our friends James and Beth aren’t too far away (at Point Samson) so we’ll catch up with them for a meal and a bit of fishing over the week.
It was a beautiful drive here today. The only building we passed in 300ks was a roadhouse at Fortesque river-otherwise nothing! We passed lots of low hills and small ranges, many more wild flowers and the road had enough bends in it to keep us awake. The wind pushed the car and van around a bit, but has virtually stopped now.
I was a bit angry when we got here as we’d been promised a site close to the ablutions when I booked. This is a huge park, it’s full and we are just about as far as we can be from them. They couldn’t give us another site, but offered us our money back-it’s school holidays, so the other parks we just tried are full too. When I was booking, I knocked back an en suite site as $43 a night was a bit out of our budget (especially when we own the accommodation!). Now I wish we had taken it!
Russ has the boat trailer assembled, we put the boat on and we are about to go and hit the shops.
Karratha is a service town for the mining, gas and oil and salt production that goes on nearby. It’s not the prettiest of towns but it has 2 supermarkets, banks and restaurants, so it’ll be fine for a week. Our friends James and Beth aren’t too far away (at Point Samson) so we’ll catch up with them for a meal and a bit of fishing over the week.
It was a beautiful drive here today. The only building we passed in 300ks was a roadhouse at Fortesque river-otherwise nothing! We passed lots of low hills and small ranges, many more wild flowers and the road had enough bends in it to keep us awake. The wind pushed the car and van around a bit, but has virtually stopped now.
I was a bit angry when we got here as we’d been promised a site close to the ablutions when I booked. This is a huge park, it’s full and we are just about as far as we can be from them. They couldn’t give us another site, but offered us our money back-it’s school holidays, so the other parks we just tried are full too. When I was booking, I knocked back an en suite site as $43 a night was a bit out of our budget (especially when we own the accommodation!). Now I wish we had taken it!
Russ has the boat trailer assembled, we put the boat on and we are about to go and hit the shops.
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