Another few days of chatting with friends , shopping and cleaning the ute and van , had us wanting to get out & about . It's staying hot up here as well , fortunately each day we get a sea breeze to cool things down a bit . So we headed out Warlu Road towards Millstream , but only went out about 20klms and turned off onto this road . It was bordered by Mulla Mulla , and lots of it .
Throw in some white everlasting daisies as well .
Followed a track down toward Munni Munni Creek , past more flowers .
A little further down , we found the dry creek bed .
More tiny flowers along the creek bed .
And finally there was some water . It seems this section is really popular with locals , as there were tyre tracks everywhere .
An aerial view shows the tyre tracks and the surrounding flood plains
And here's the ute to give some perspective to the photo .
It was 35 degrees , so we didn't stay out side long , the sand and rocks was starting to burn our feet . Back out to the first road we turned off on and we headed off to the right to a spot called Radio Tower Lookout . There was a small mine next door , and the track up the hill was a mixture of bitumen in the steep sections , and gravel in the not so steep sections - 4WD was necessary ! Views from the top were pretty good , 360 degree views .
The dark line is actually an iron ore train heading toward Dampier
Rocky ridges stretch into the distance , it's different landscape up here .
This is looking to the north toward Dampier , the long line at the right is that iron ore train again .
Here's a view of Warlu road with a few cars heading toward Dampier , the green is spinifex .
And here's an empty train heading back toward Tom Price , that is the 3rd engine - there's another two to the right .
And with that we headed back into town , and prepared for the next leg of our journey , toward Carnarvon . Here's a map link :- https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1DO5-dAaAdmgvnnrI4kI-sUT7mqeCuW8&usp=sharing
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