On leaving Meekathera we drove to a lookout
over the town and surrounding plains before continuing on. The terrain was much
the same as the previous day being arid shrubland, fairly desolate and dry and
still rising in altitude with the only hills to be seen far, far off in the
distance. Only stopping off along the way for morning tea, lunch and fuel we
finally arrived at Newman and the first hills we had come to in over 2 days of
travelling. Opening the doors we were greeted with a blast of hot air. Quite a
strong wind with the temperature at 30 degrees - we had crossed over into the
Tropic of Capricorn. Newman is a bustling mining town home to the world’s
largest open cut mine. We called in to the information centre before continuing
on to a lookout over the town, supermarket, fuel and camp.
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