Saturday, September 19, 2009
Port Samson to Exmouth
Hello everyone,
Port Samson is a pretty & relaxed place. I did some fishing & caught a couple of good sized flathead, & swam at the beach each day. One day we went on a tour of Rio - Tinto's iron ore plant at Cape Lambert. The ore comes here on long trains, up to 4.5 ks long & 380 tons in weight, is unloaded & graded into sizes that the customers have ordered & then placed into big heaps. It is then loaded onto ships via huge conveyor belts. We also spent a few hours in the old town of Cossack,which was very interesting. A lot of the old buildings have been restored to somewhere near their past glory. & turned into museums. We visited Karatha a couple of times, as this is the main shopping town in the area. It's a big town & growing very quickly. The amount of building going on was astounding, & I doubt there is any unemployment in this town.The average house price is about $750,000 to $850,000 for a 3-4 bedroom house. It's strange, but we didn't think that the place had a great atmosphere. Dampier, on the other hand, looked nice, & seemed to have a good atmosphere.
Whilst in Point Samson, Avril celebrated her 70th birthday. She received a few presents from friends & family, a few phone calls, & we went to the local seafood cafe with friends for dinner.It was a lovely night. We ended up staying in Point Samsom for 2 weeks & left last Monday.We spent the next night in a free bush camp on the bank of the Robe River. It was idealic with people swimming & fishing & had a great atmosphere.Tuesday was at another bush camp, but the wind really came up & the place was a dust bowl. Not very enjoyable. We spent Wednesday, Thursday & Friday in Exmouth & thoroughly enjoyed it. More about Exmouth next time.
Love to you all,
Avril & Doug
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Port Samson is a pretty & relaxed place. I did some fishing & caught a couple of good sized flathead, & swam at the beach each day. One day we went on a tour of Rio - Tinto's iron ore plant at Cape Lambert. The ore comes here on long trains, up to 4.5 ks long & 380 tons in weight, is unloaded & graded into sizes that the customers have ordered & then placed into big heaps. It is then loaded onto ships via huge conveyor belts. We also spent a few hours in the old town of Cossack,which was very interesting. A lot of the old buildings have been restored to somewhere near their past glory. & turned into museums. We visited Karatha a couple of times, as this is the main shopping town in the area. It's a big town & growing very quickly. The amount of building going on was astounding, & I doubt there is any unemployment in this town.The average house price is about $750,000 to $850,000 for a 3-4 bedroom house. It's strange, but we didn't think that the place had a great atmosphere. Dampier, on the other hand, looked nice, & seemed to have a good atmosphere.
Whilst in Point Samson, Avril celebrated her 70th birthday. She received a few presents from friends & family, a few phone calls, & we went to the local seafood cafe with friends for dinner.It was a lovely night. We ended up staying in Point Samsom for 2 weeks & left last Monday.We spent the next night in a free bush camp on the bank of the Robe River. It was idealic with people swimming & fishing & had a great atmosphere.Tuesday was at another bush camp, but the wind really came up & the place was a dust bowl. Not very enjoyable. We spent Wednesday, Thursday & Friday in Exmouth & thoroughly enjoyed it. More about Exmouth next time.
Love to you all,
Avril & Doug
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