We had a very long day driving to Karratha. Saw some Sturt Desert Pea at one short stop.
Karratha is a very new town between Dampier and Point Sampson. Both these ports have iron ore loaders, here is part of a train more than 2 km long, heading to Dampier.
Dampier is also the base for the North West Shelf LNG Project, Natural Gas is extracted from under the sea floor 150 km offshore from Dampier and treated to remove other gasses at Dampier, before it is either piped to Perth or frozen and loaded aboard special ships for export.
These are photos from the LNG information centre at Dampier. One is a model if a gas platform, the other shows the undersea pipes out to the drilling platforms.
The flame from this stack at Dampier can easily be seen at Karratha.
There is a Christian Seafarers Centre at Dampier. Jake De Salis is chaplain, we had lunch with Jake and Jenny in Karratha.
Lee attended a Women's Conference at Karratha Anglican Church, which was on that weekend. The speaker was Monica Short, from Sydney.
Peter helped in the kitchen. Here is the Minister at Karratha, Les Gaulton with his wife, Jenny.
After the conference weekend, we went to Point Sampson and attended evening church at Wickham, and next day had a big fisherman's basket lunch with the Minister, Richard Goscombe and his wife Tracy.
We have had many great sunsets, I think this was from our caravan park at Karratha.
Next, we leave the Pilbera and head south to Exmouth and Coral Bay.
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