We left Kalgoorlie bright and early and started our trip back over some of the country we started on, coming from west to east with 3000 km in front of us over the Nullabor Plain. Usually it takes 4-5 days for the journey but having been over it seven weeks ago we wasted no time in getting home. No complaints though it was full of interest with all the heavy traffic and the different types of folk you meet. As you can see it was quite wet, which we got a lot of but still it was good for the far

after travelling for a few days down through the interior of this huge state of Western Australia from Newman I have come to realise that apart from the southern wheat belt which we went through on the earlier part of our trip, the rest of the it is fairly unproductive as far as pasture development and stocking goes. There are big holdings that run quite a number of cattle though.From the road, most of the way down is you can see numerous mines large and small. I think most are gold mines which

Left Port Hedland about a week ago, had a few days at a place called "Pardo Station" basically tp have a spell and a bit of R& R and some fishing before turning south down to the heart of this material that is railed from the Newman mine to Port Hedland for shipping..We arrived here yesterday and you soon realise that everything at this place is on a massive scale, I mean a massive scale. It is a town of approx. 2000 people where everything is totally geared around this mine. Mt Whaleback