After being beach bums for so long we are now making the turn towards home. Mind you, home is still 4200+ km/2600+ mi away... By the most direct route... But still, inland we turn and face entering the fantastic, terrible, amazing and boring Pilbara. An arid desert filled with pockets of fantastic scenery,
terrible washes called floodways that can isolate an already isolated station,
town or traveller at any moment (during the wet season!), amazing blocks of rich mineral deposits, providing the aussie dollar its international boost, and stretches of boring, flat red dust plains.
On our way out of Coral Bay, we did grab a few snaps of some terminte mounds - these huge crusty mounds were scattered all over the plains and in some areas numbering in the hundreds.
As we crept eastwards towards Tom Price, a Rio Tinto mining town with a population of 3200, we travelled over and around a handful of old mountains that had deep red exposed cliff faces heavy with iron ore and silica (didn't I tell you travelling with a geologist is fun and informative?)
The scenery had subtle changes around every corner (and there actually was some corners!) and over every hill.
On our way out of Coral Bay, we did grab a few snaps of some terminte mounds - these huge crusty mounds were scattered all over the plains and in some areas numbering in the hundreds.
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| Terminte Mounds, Between Coral Bay & Exmouth, W.A. |
The scenery had subtle changes around every corner (and there actually was some corners!) and over every hill.
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