On the Road: Barn hill via port hedland to ....Coral Bay

Barn hill.....just a park 8 klm off the road overlooking the ocean ..again a station that leased some commonwealth land on the ocean (smart thinking and has become as mecca for grey nomads famous for it's sunday roast !
we arrived at the turn off a few gates some land and a few bigggggg speed humps got in fine

we enjoyed the weekend there with the roast and all..... met a nice couple from qld next to us ..Ian and I had another crack at fishing but the wind has got up now and it's a problem ....
our next destination was going to be coral bay and maybe exmouth ..but it was a fair drive down and as we headed further south the weather and wind !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

salt works port hedland

3 trailer road train normally 4

just a little drive

Coral Bay ..... but to get there a couple of free camps passing through Port Hedland and Karratha two major mining towns on the map in the Pilbra ...we stopped in port hedland to do a little shopping not me i sat in the coffee shop with ian while the girls did their thing nothing new in that eh........Funny thing happened while we were sitting there a couple of indigenous guys were sitting at the next table when another came over and sat down ...ian started laughing ...the guy coming over said to the other two “Hello Mr Black” and “Hello Mr Brown” and they said” Hello Mr White” ...a comedy skit off the cuff !! had a good laugh.............shopping finished fuelled up ....karratha lots of road trains wide loads , a couple of roadhouses . passing dampier home of Red Dog...did you see the movie ?.....Plenty of bush with the landscape changing we eventually got to Bullara station about 80klm from coral bay ..camping there for the night another station that has added a stay to their business .........We met a character April whose daughter owned the station she was helping out .....grew up on a station in the Kimberly married and owned and ran stations all over a remarkable woman no fuss no nonsense...We told her she should write a book it was well set up nothing flash but we enjoyed the stay....shearing quarters were turned into accommodation i remember staying in digs like these when i was a rouseabout....( a worker during shearing who has lots of tasks ,a shearer calls for tar ....loading pens...sweeping ...moving fleeces to the classer's table.doing whatever is required !! to keep things running smoothly....

They have changed their sheep for a south africian stock with long fat tails ..look like goats ...the shearing shed is now idle but it smacks of past days and the smell is still there .... but they also have cattle ...check out the chainsaw ....