Monday 1st October: Marble Bar – Port Smith 484km Wendy lead



The navigator had a few problems even getting out of Marble Bar but once on the road managed to find all the next turnoffs. By mid-morning we had re-joined the Great Northern Highway 100km east of Port Hedland and started heading east towards our ultimate destination of Broome. We stopped in at Eighty Mile Beach getting our 1st glimpse of the coast. The water was a brilliant turquoise blue, the beach white sand strewn with shells. Quite a number of people were on the beach with their surfcasters out.  As it wasn’t even lunch time and we were in need of fuel we decided to keep heading east where we had lunch and refuelled at Sandfire Roadhouse. Just in time as our fuel warning light had come on 10km out. We continued on, seeing our 1st sedan car on the road in 4 days and our 1st live kangaroo since we set out. Arriving at Port Smith Camp Ground set on the banks of a tidal estuary where catching crabs is the recreational pastime.
 

 

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