Alan & Lyn's Huge Adventure: 20/9/20 4 nights at the lookout

Back on the road , we head south to Albert Tognolini Lookout and set up camp for a few days , before going in to Karijini . As you know , we do like camping here , it's usually quiet and the views are amazing. Our chosen spot this time was beside a tree and the valley on the other side , here's some photos from ground and air .

The afternoon sun was creating shadows and a golden glow .

The Great Northern Hwy snakes through the canyon , and can be a very busy road at times .

The sun created a golden moment .

The afterglow was impressive as well .

Next day the light was good foursome aerial photos , and gives you a better idea of the amount of camping spots available , there are more out of picture .

Just love the colours here , bright red and light green , it seems a bit strange that there's some bare patches in the spinifex ,but it makes for some different photos .

The 4wd track to the top of the mountain called us again , we also took Vicki & Bomba with us . We were beside them at Barn Hill , then again at Port Hedland and will be catching up with them in Karijini as well . We parked at the end of the track and wandered around and up to the top of the hill . Views down the valley are impressive .

It's amazing how these gum trees grow here , these ones have been here for quite a while .

Next day we headed out for a walk to the lookout , and it was nice and calm and perfect flying weather , here's the highway again .

This is the cutting where the highway goes through , amazing colours in the layers .

We walked down past the lookout and got out to near the colourful cutting , before heading back up , just then a pilot vehicle approached and was directing all the north bound traffic to stop . Luckily there were 3 lanes and some breakdown lane as well , so the road trains could pull over and give the wide load some space . The wide load was not only wide but also high - we've never seen anything like this on the road before - there were 3 separate loads , the first being pulled by 2 trucks connected together .

I estimated it to be about 14-15m high and about 7-8m wide .

The 2nd truck was towing a section of work platform as wide as the first load .

The 3rd truck had what looked to be the framework for a conveyor - no doubt to be installed feeding ore into the first trucks load - for crushing or processing .

These lips of red rock are what's known as cemented gravel - lot's of smaller rocks cemented together!

One of the gullies beside our walking track .

We drove down to Munjina Rd and headed east toward Roy Hill Mine - it was a fair way away , but we weren't going that far . We had been reliably informed about some work going on about 40 kms down the road . We got about 10klms down before we had a wide load come through - we gave him plenty of room . Not as big as yesterdays , but nothing to sneeze at either . Yesterdays load was going to the new South Flank Project near Newman .

After checking out the new airport runway - nearly 3klms long and the new mine being built on the other side of the road . There's also another railway line being built out to this mine - it will connect back up with the rail line to Karratha & Port Lambert . There's also a road bridge being built over the top of the new railway on the highway near Auski Roadhouse - no money in iron ore - not much hahaha .

This is Munjina Rd from above , it runs east west on the northern side of the Hamersley Ranges .