Hamersley Gorge and Tom Price

Was welcomed this morning by a dingo wandering past our site looking for food I guess. Took a drive west to Hamersly Gorge about 100k from our campsite then back via Tom Price for fuel. The pools at the bottom of the Gorge looked awesome for swimming but seemed too cold for me, maybe we will swim at some of the others tomorrow.. There is no telstra reception at our campsite, only Optus, so we grabbed an Optus data sim at Tom Price. On the drive back to Dales, we stopped at Mt Bruce overlooking Marandoo mine which was carved off from the notional park in 1994. There was an ore train waiting at the mine, I forgot how long they are. I use a head lamp when moving around outside the van at night or going to the loo, I noticed little pinprick glittering like a tiny diamond. There was 5 or 6 of these around a 10m area. On closer inspection they were spiders about the size of a 20 cent piece. You could not get the glitter with a normal torch, just from the head lamp. Amazing how many of them are hanging around at night getting a feed.
The stars and the Milky Way are amazing out here. I tried to take some photos but they won’t do it justiceRead more