Billy's Camp No. 40, Cape Keraudren

1/7/2014
G'Day,
I traveled again via Marble Bar Road and on to the Great Northern Highway to Cape Keraudren. It is a reserve rather then a park, it has toilets and nothing else. It is barren and no trees. Its beauty is the bay, creeks and mangroves and of course the sunsets. The bay and creeks empty at each low tide and one can walk across the bay and up into the creeks. No crocs.
I fished and caught, cod, mangrove jack, yellow fin bream, garfish and crab. The crab are best "hooked" out of their holes at low tide, or they can be found semi buried in mud on the mudflats. They are also a by catch when fishing. Enclosed traps are not permitted as in NT.
I stayed here for 18 nights at $6.00 per night.
Fuel at at Pardoo Roadhouse was $2.06/L and $1.60 in Port Hedland.
9300k's to date.

It was about 3 m high

He lost

Garfish...the bones are edible

The finches started nesting in my annex....null arbor

At Port Hedland...couldnt get it in one frame on the iphone

Port Hedland is a basic town and the main shops are in South Hedland. It is windy and dusty with red dust. Thousands of tonnes of iron ore stored in piles and arriving each day by open train. I applied for a job in the area in the early 80's, i'm glad I didnt get it.

80 mile beach...at the 80 mile beach caravan park, 90 k's north of Cape Keraudren. It actually starts just north of Cape Keraudren

80 mile beach....Broome is about 400 k's north...been there done that.

Turtles are in abundance, but get themselves stranded in mangroves and creeks at low tide. But they sit and wait for the next high.

Mudcrab within. It is amazing the environment they live in but their flesh is white and sweet.

A jenny ( female) generally not taken for food by most

But males we do take..

15 minutes later these guys were off down the creek in their boats. In two hours the water would have been over their heads.

The bay base is mostly sandstone.

Port Sampson ships waiting to dock. The same was at Port Hedland, about 10 waiting to come in on the tide.

Apparently the longest and tallest open jetty in Australia, and this is as close as one can get. Tankers are at the end being loaded

I am at Karratha and will stay here until 3/6/14 and move to 40 mile beach about 60 k's south.
The wind is persistant and is apparently set in till about the end of August
ttfn Billy