Leaving our great free camp , we head to Newman , lots of road works - widening shoulders and new access roads to new mines . Newman is a strange town , they used to have 2 caravan parks , one closed and is mining accomodation , surprise , surprise , the 2nd one only shut last year , it was already mining accomodation with a small caravan park - now it's just mining accomodation . There's also a few other mining camps as well - don't want tourists obviously . So we emptied tanks and went shopping and left good old Newman .
There are a lot of rest areas beside the road north , but again a lot of these are closed due to roadworks - maybe they are going to put bitumen down instead of the red dirt - this didn't help us as we were going to stay at Mt Robinson rest Area - it was closed as well , so onwards and upwards we went . It was almost like going home , we pulled in to Albert Tognolini Lookout and drove up the track further than usual , and found a spot overlooking the valley below - perfect spot for 3 nights !!
To our surprise there were wildflowers out and blooming , spinifex had gone nuts , and it was looking nice and green - amazing what some rain will do out here !!
This is a part of the Hammersley Ranges and quite spectacular - I won't prattle on too much , just enjoy the photo's . All the rocks are orange or red .
This plant was about the size of the palm of your hand and was yet to flower - lot's of buds though .
There were 3 types of wattle flowering - this one a low bushy type
This one a tree
And this ball type , low scrubby bush
Found some wildlife - an interesting grasshopper
All the plants etc looked like they wanted to be here .
See via you can spot the lizard in the next one , or cheat and go to the 2nd photo for a zoomed in version. Pretty good camouflage !!
These white ones were tiny - all these could fit on a ten cent coin .
There were also a lot of butterflies and bees around as well .
This is the 4wd track that takes you to the top of the mountain , great views from up there - we were walking so the top missed out on our company today .
These Coolabah trees are beautiful , if you look at the one on the right , it looks like 2 trees just joined together .
And to finish it off another sunset .
To make sure we left , Albert turned on the cold weather - it didn't get above 20 degrees and got down to below 10 degrees overnight - and for the record , we don't like the cold anymore !!!
Out onto the road north and up to Port Hedland for 5 days , to catch up with Gary & Linda and then keep on truckin further north .
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