Making our way down the North West Coast

We have been travelling down the North West Coastal Highway and on our way to Karratha we stopped for the night at the Whim Creek Hotel.  On our way there we saw a huge brown goanna crossing the road and several brolgas out on the spinifex grass plains. 

 

At the hotel there were two pet corellas.  Their names were Harry and Harriet.  Both of the birds could talk.  Harry said “hello Harriet” and Harriet said “hello Harry”.  They were really tame and you could tickle them which they loved.

Harriet

Harriet

The next day we drove to a small historic town called Cossack.  There was an old stone store, Court House and old houses  We also saw the old school house which had one room.  A tram line ran around the town and a horse drawn tram took the school children to the nearby town of Roebourne when a cyclone destroyed their school building.  A 10 year old girl that went to the school died when she trod on a rusty nail and got tetanus which is a disease.  We saw her grave in the cemetary near Settlers Beach.  There were also lots of other graves of young people and families that drowned after ships sank.

General store at Cossack

Court House at Cossack which is now a museum

Finally I'm back in school

After lunch we drove to Karratha and on our way to Dampier we went to an Aboriginal art site in a rocky gorge.  The gorge was heaps and heaps of huge piles of rocks.  On the rocks there were hundreds of Aboriginal art engravings of mimmi spirits, animals, jelly fish bird footprints and first settlers.  They were over 30 000 years old.  This place has the most ancient rock art in the world!

Deep Gorge in Murujuga National Park near Karratha

Some engravings of bird footprints

Later we went to the Visitor Centre near Dampier and saw the North West Gas Shelf where the gas comes from 134 km off the coast of Western Australia to the massive gas plant.

We are now on our way to Onslow to see the Staircase to the Moon on the 1^st August.  I will tell you more about this next time.

See you later.