Karratha is the largest town in the Pilbara and is based around the Rio Tinto mines and the Port Facilities in the area. It has all you need, great parks, pubs and shopping etc.
Met up with old friends from Perth who live there for dinner at the Tambey Tavern which does a great schnitzel, but $15 for a pint of Little Creatures XPA, Shame on you
We visited the Ghost Town of Cossack
Cossack is an historic ghost town located 1,480 km north of Perth and 15 km from Roebourne in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The nearest town to Cossack is Wickham.
Cossack is located on Butchers Inlet at the mouth of the Harding River. It is reached by a single, sealed road that follows the original causeway across a series of tidal salt flats. The overall landform of the region around Cossack is a low, flat plain with occasional rocky hills and ranges. The vegetation is mainly grass, spinifex and low shrub, with occasional trees (mangroves) along watercourses and in gullies. The mangrove scrub becomes quite dense along the shoreline and at the mouth of the inlet.
The town was the heart of the Pearling industry, for many years but when the industry moved to Broome the town gradually dwindled and when hit by a Cyclone was abandoned in the 1940s
Many Buildings have now been restored and there is a Cafe and accommodation available.
The Jail has been restored and is used to house the most desperate local criminals!
We were going to go to Chichester Millstream National Park as well but unforeseen illness meant Jools could not stray too far from the ablution block that day.