Roebourne, 38km north of Karatha.  24th May 2015.

Another big day of wide open spaces!

Left Coral Bay at 8.30 this morning not really knowing where we would end up tonight.

At first we thought that we might stop at Baradale RA where we had camped before, but we had only travelled 2.5 hours by then.

Robe River looked like the next big camp spot.  We arrived there just after 1.00 pm and had lunch.  There were at least 7 others there at the time and it had started to rain lightly so we decided that we could get to Karatha by 4.00 pm and do some shopping at Coles and get a fuel voucher.

Arrived at 4.05 pm and caught Coles still open, although just about everything else was closed in the Centro Karatha.  The BWS liquor shop was also closed.  Damn! Can’t take any brown amber cough elixir to Indee.  We only have less than 200 km, or 2 + hours to travel tomorrow to get there. This centre has doubled in size since we were here in 2009.

There is also some high-rise buildings in town now. We saw 2 new gas plants, 1 new iron ore mine, another mine of some description & something else large before we reached Karatha.  All new to us.  Something else new to us is that all of the larger rest areas, and some of the not so large ones, now have one and sometimes 2, Dump-ezy dump points to empty MH & CV toilets into.  This has to be a good thing.

On arrival at Roebourne CVP after travelling 572 km for the day, we were greeted by the operators who come from Bowerville.  Been here 3.5 years now. 

I am not sure when the next bulletin will be posted, it will depend on what Telstra signal is available, so all the best to everyone until then.

The Indee 500 motorcycle race is on just before the end of June.  25th & 26th I think.

Des & Bev.