4 May 2013
Early morning start to get our road trip of 850kms over and done with! Headed out of Dampier and through Karratha, another strange town. It is just bizarre that into this area and out of this area is quite literally nothing but red dirt and shrubs and then all of a sudden there is a maccas and Kmart?! What the! Sort of like when you go overseas and see maccas, it looks weird but you are super glad to see something familiar! Haha
On the way out of this area are a few towns to see, not with much more than a servo and few houses but still something to look at. Roeburne turned up a great sign at their servo...
Port headland was another big mining business town, like a town full of roadworks would be how I describe it and the trucks my god never seen so many trucks in one place. The trucks here far outway the cars on the road! The termite mounds with hard hats stuck to them was another weird and interesting sight!
Between port headland and broome there is a lot of kms but only two roadhouses and that's it! So we pretty much just put pedal to the metal and powered on. A lot of music playlists were used in this road trip!
We stopped at one of the roadhouses for fuel and Joel met a fellow dmax owner. I left to pay for fuel and when I came back Joel was pretty quick to end the conversation with this guy so we hopped in car and left. As we were driving out Joel is just shaking his head and going what a wanker, what a dickhead....so of course I said why....Joel's reply..."this joker just told me that he got bogged in the sand in Broome, so I asked him if he let his tyres down and he said....oh no that's just a myth, that doesn't actually work!" Well this did not go down well with Joel, I then got the scientifics about why letting your tyres down works and trust me he didn't have to convince me, I have seen it with my own eyes on many occasions when Joel decides to go sand and doesn't let the tyres down till he's bogged, tyres down and bang out of the bog. I think at this point Joel was ashamed that these are the kind of people driving dmax's out there! We came to the conclusion that we are sure this guy is in the minority! Haha
Finally made it to broome, drove from 7am to 5pm! Pulled into our caravan park and set up for a good nights sleep!
Carly & Joel
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