After 10,000kms you would have thought we’d have learnt to look a bit more thoroughly at maps before heading to the next place. There have been a number of times we have headed off after a lazy morning only to discover after a few hours of driving that we have still got lots of kms to get to our destination!!! So once again after a couple of hours travelling and a few enquiring questions “Are we there yet?”, we discovered we had embarked on a journey of close to 600kms. So the dvd player got a workout, all food supplies in the car were devoured and in the early evening we arrived at Point Samson.

A small, sleepy town surrounded by massive industry and ports, trucks and trains. (See our next planned blog)

The caravan park set up their water park twice especially for our kids (as they were the only kids in the park)

Noah caught the only fish which he was super proud of, even it was tiny!!

We also went for a day trip into Milllstream. An old station that is now a National Park, which was beautiful. Python Pool was so nice, but we were there a bit early for a swim (9am), and there was some algae in it which was a bit average, but the 50 metre cliffs were stunning. We then went to the old homestead, which had lots of history and an interesting walk looking through the eyes of a little boy who used to live here in the early 1900’s. There was some crystal clear creeks and beautiful old gardens as well.

We then went to the Fortesque river for lunch and the kids enjoyed feeding the fish their crusts. The fish came right up to us all as we fed them. Mainly catfish.

One of the highlights for the kids was following the train lines back into Karratha. Noah counted 8 massive trains carting iron ore into the port during the day.

We also saw a little Memorial for “Red Dog” from the movie made in this area.