Day 47 Friday 29th July

Day 47  Friday 29th July

Lyn and Steve decided to take their time and wander to Coral Bay, stopping along the way several times and relax so they left around 10am this morning. Heather, Paul, Rob and I decided to stay in Karratha a  couple more nights so we could go to the FeNaCLNG festival which is on this weekend. After Lyn and Steve had left we headed out towards Point Sampson which was about 50 kms from Karratha. We called into Wickham first and took some photos at the mining display, which included a huge mining truck and a train engine. We drove along the beach at Pt Walcott and the boys tried their luck at fishing but the tides weren't right. We saw the Rio Tinto trains lined up  with carriges full of iron ore ready for the Cape Lambert loading facility. From here we drove on down to Point Sampson and checked out the beaches, the marina and stopped for lunch. The boys had another try at fishing on a causeway but had no luck. On the return trip we visited the restored heritage town of Cossack. It was once a bustling, pearling town in the 1870s and later a port but was deserted in the early 1900s. The buildings have all  been restored and we were lucky enough to be in the town when the Annual Pilbara Art Exhibition was being held in one of the old buildings. We enjoyed looking at the old buildings and the art before returning to Karratha.