Tom Price & Millstream National Park

Tom Price

3rd - 4th October 2016

One night stay in Tom Price. We went for a drive up a rough track to the top of a mountain. So what do you call a mountain when you run out of names??? Mount Nameless ha ha! The view was spectacular. 360 view. Tom Price is a lovely small town nestled at the foothills of a beautiful range.

Tom Price is tucked in there. Not that you can really see it.

View of Mount Nameless from the caravan park.

Tom Price is a mining town also. Accommodation and a Di I got hall is open to the public so I decided to have the night off! For $15.00 each you get the full buffet plus a steak! It was great to have a little bit of an idea what Joel used to do out in this region. Albeit not in the volumes he did.

And the wine was only $3.80!!!!! The cheapest drink in 6 months ha ha ha!

Pack up time again. Off to Milstream National Park.

The Rio Tinto Rail Private Road

There are two options to travel to Millstream. We chose to go along the Rio Tinto private rail road. You attend an information video viewing at the tourist information centre and get a permit to travel on it.

Hello old friend red corrugated road!

So many mining trains. The ore volumes are staggering. This was a great drive travelling parallel to the rail line.

We never tire of the majestic, rugged landscape.

Milstream-Chichester National Park

4th - 6th October 2016

Another brilliant National Park. Great site with plenty of shade and well spaced away from the neighbours.

Brekky time!

Walk time along the Millstream. Nice easy stroll.

The water is so incredibly clear.

More like a Botanical Garden than a National Park. In the late 1800's - mid 1900's this was a homestead. With all this lovely, pristine water they had a huge Chinese market garden.

Hhmmmmm! Our old friends flies back in profusion!

These two photos are taken under water. So clear. Check out the little fish.

Photo of the photographer!

The original homestead kitchen outhouse.

The homestead. Now the information / museum centre.

The Spinifex pigeon.

Deep Reach Creek. Sooooo good in 37 degree heat. Plenty of hours floating around in the noodle chair here.

Dezzi checking out the catfish.

Looking down on the creek from the cliff top.

Spinifex as far as the eye can see.

I have been dead keen to see the Sturt's Desert Pea "in the flesh". I expected them to be quite large. They are really small. But so beautiful.

On our way out of the National Park we stopped off at Python Pool for a swim. More majestic landscape.

The water was soooo good!

Surrounding countryside - stunning.

So that is the end of red, red corrugated roads for a while!

Time to pump up the tyres and hit the bitumen to Karratha.

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