Mine Tour at Tom Price and on to Nanutarra RH
The View from Mt Nameless
Wednesday 26th we had a late brunch of bacon, eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms (delicious) then headed out for a 4wd up Mt Nameless behind the caravan park. It is pretty steep (but not quite as steep as Mt Sheila was thank goodness) and gave us great views of the mine below and country side around.
At 1.30 pm we went on a really interesting tour of the mine-it was to last 1 ½ hours, but the bus driver had been arguing with his beloved and stretched it out to 2 ½! It was great to travel past all the huge machinery and trains etc and watch them loading and dumping the ore in the various stages. I thought it was a much better and informative tour than the more expensive one we took of the Ore Loading Facilities in Dampier.
Mt. Tom Price's Main Pit
Russ and I were both a bit sad to leave Tom Price this morning; it’s been a really friendly caravan park and a beautiful spot. We headed south through Paraburdoo to Nanutarra Roadhouse where we are spending the night. For those of you who don’t know what a roadhouse is, it’s the pub, motel, camping ground and fuel stop and usually the only building in what looked like a town on the map. The 10 or so people that work here are the entire population and the next road house is over 200ks away. This one is very remote with no TV, internet of phone coverage for us. As we booked in the cowboy type who helped us said that it was a nice walk to the river and couples were known to be quite romantic when they got back. I told him I’d take Russ over there twice! Right now we are sitting outside (it’s probably 23c with a bit of a breeze) watching all the late arrivals pull in and set up. It does look and feel like we might get some rain which would be different after only 3 days of rain in 5 months.
Down at the Romantic River (Nanutarra Roadhouse)
Tomorrow (28th) we head to Carnarvon and all those lovely fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs. We’ll be spending 4 nights there and I’m actually looking forward to it-even though I didn’t enjoy it so much last time.
Wednesday 26th we had a late brunch of bacon, eggs, tomatoes and mushrooms (delicious) then headed out for a 4wd up Mt Nameless behind the caravan park. It is pretty steep (but not quite as steep as Mt Sheila was thank goodness) and gave us great views of the mine below and country side around.
At 1.30 pm we went on a really interesting tour of the mine-it was to last 1 ½ hours, but the bus driver had been arguing with his beloved and stretched it out to 2 ½! It was great to travel past all the huge machinery and trains etc and watch them loading and dumping the ore in the various stages. I thought it was a much better and informative tour than the more expensive one we took of the Ore Loading Facilities in Dampier.
Mt. Tom Price's Main Pit
Russ and I were both a bit sad to leave Tom Price this morning; it’s been a really friendly caravan park and a beautiful spot. We headed south through Paraburdoo to Nanutarra Roadhouse where we are spending the night. For those of you who don’t know what a roadhouse is, it’s the pub, motel, camping ground and fuel stop and usually the only building in what looked like a town on the map. The 10 or so people that work here are the entire population and the next road house is over 200ks away. This one is very remote with no TV, internet of phone coverage for us. As we booked in the cowboy type who helped us said that it was a nice walk to the river and couples were known to be quite romantic when they got back. I told him I’d take Russ over there twice! Right now we are sitting outside (it’s probably 23c with a bit of a breeze) watching all the late arrivals pull in and set up. It does look and feel like we might get some rain which would be different after only 3 days of rain in 5 months.
Down at the Romantic River (Nanutarra Roadhouse)
Tomorrow (28th) we head to Carnarvon and all those lovely fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs. We’ll be spending 4 nights there and I’m actually looking forward to it-even though I didn’t enjoy it so much last time.
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