Today was a big travel day with 600 kilometres to our camp at Broome tonight. Before leaving Port Hedland, we did a quick “mainy” to see the sights of the Port. It very much is a port that moves a lot of raw materials – iron ore and salt.
Finally we are starting to see some animals with cattle and kangaroos (all alive) alongside the road and some points on the road but they didn’t pose any issues. It would probably be different at night.
One of the highlights was coming across a degree confluence which of course had a geocache. For those wondering, a degree confluence is the intersection of the latitude and longitude integers. Today I visited the degree confluence of 20°S 120°E. There are somewhere around 727 degree confluences in Australia but not all are easily accessible.
The wind for the first 400 km was of course a headwind which blew out the fuel economy to 28 litres per 100 km but at least for the last 200 kms, the road swung to the north so ended up with some wind assist.
As usual, we arrived in Broome after sunset but not by far, managing some sunset photos about 40 kilometres out from town.
We have a bit of a rest day tomorrow looking around Broome before making the move toward the Northern Territory.
