10.05.2012, Fitzroy Crossing – Willara Road House
There was an interesting camp-kitchen in Fitzroy Crossing. Because the camp site is in a flood plane area, all facilities are on little hills. The camp-kitchen and the toilets, too. This time we push started the bike after breakfast by letting it roll down the camp-kitchen hill.
We went to the Geike Gorge. We went on a 2 h walk there. First we walked along the backside of the hill and then the river.
Stayed at Willara Roadhouse very cheaply for only 15 $. We met a couple from Taiwan who are travelling on a large BMW motorcycle. Jeff and Michele are travelling around the whole of Australia. Jeff has already travelled through Russia to Europe and through North-, Central- and Southamerica on a motorcycle.
11.05.2012, Willara Road House – Broome
In the morning we were repairing around on Gerhards bike, when Jeff found out that it wasn't the starter motor or anything else broken, it was simply a dry battery. After we had refilled the battery the motor started without any issues.
Then we drove to Broome quite briskly. We enjoyed the sunset at Cable Beach.
12.05.2012, Broome – Pardoo Road House
We weren't able to sleep very well. It was fairly loud and very humid. In the night we still had about 30°C. The next morning our tent was completely wet from the outside and the inside. It was disgusting.
We watched the sunrise and took some fotos.
We drove 460 km to Pardoo Roadhouse.
In the evening we talked to the staff of the roadhouse, who all come from different parts of the world.
It's very interesting that the roadhouse had been completely destroyed by a cyclone on 17. March 2012. Meanwhile a lot has been rebuilt and the roadhouse itself works quite well again.
13.05.2012, Pardoo Road House – Karinjini National Park
Port Hedland is purely an iron ore export town. At this harbour millions of tonnes of ore are shipped to China.
Our next stopp was the Karinjini National Park. The first 300 km after Port Hedland were exceptionally boring. Flat and strait roads. But the last 100 km were very nice.
The camp site in the national park was very poorly equipped, no tables, no showers, no power and no water.
