It’s my birthday and what a wonderful start to the day
waking to a beautiful dawn, sun filtering through the trees and cool enough to
make it very pleasant. No wind on the water so the reflection from the trees on
the opposite bank was magnificent. After breakfast we backtracked 35km through
the park before taking the road leading to the east of Karratha. In the space
of an hour we saw 5 or 6 trains, some heading north fully laden and others
south back into the interior empty. Then
a little further along we saw another heading south with one passing over the
top of it heading west. Turning east off the road 20km south of the junction
with the North West Coastal Highway onto a little used road we re-joined the
highway at Roebourne, an old historical town with many of its stone building
restored. We had a quick look around and a drive up to a lookout before
continuing on to Cossak on the coast. Cossak had been a port town but was
finally abandoned in favour of Point Sanson in 1950 due to problems of
continual silting of the harbour. The old stone buildings have been preserved
as part of the national heritage. We had lunch on the old wharf while watching
several people fish. After lunch we continued up the peninsular to the small
and very pretty township of Sanson. Nearby, Cape Lambert has a huge port
facility for shipping out the iron ore; we managed to count 7 ships out at sea
waiting to come in with another 3 docked at the wharf. We set up camp then
crossed the road onto the beach and had a very enjoyably refreshing swim in the
warm Indian Ocean. Had a nice glass of sparkly in celebration of my birthday
before dinner.
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