Thursday, September 9, 2010

Port Hedland

Port Hedland could just as easily be called BHP land. BHP is heavily involved in salt and iron ore mining in this area.
I was facinated by the clothes lines. They all, almost without exception had work uniforms on the line.


The photo doesn't do it justice, but this is a massive pile of salt, waiting to be shipped off to foreign parts.

We watched some of the big iron ore ships at the dock and marvelled at their size.


I got a bit distracted by these lovely pylons.

We didn't stay in Port Hedland, we just shopped, bought coffee and continued inland to the Karijini National Park.

The Moerks

3 comments:

  1. So different to Tassie - absolutely fascinating!

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  2. What a house! All that corrugated iron. I remember going to Port Headland for a work trip many years ago. I didn't stay there long either! Enjoy the National Park :)

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  3. Karijini is magnificent, try and venture into as many of the gorges as possible. And yep, Port Hedland it's a workers town.

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