We had to leave Karijini at the crake of dawn to drive the
120k’s to Tom Price. We only had one day
in Tom Price and the reason for visiting was to check out the Rino Tino iron
ore mine. The tours vary around the blasting time (apparently they don’t like
tourist on site during blasting’s, even if you are wearing a hard hat and
safety goggles) and on our day in town the tour was at 8.30am.
At the mine
everything was big – big trucks, big diggers, big sheds and wide roads and a
bloody big hole in the ground. The mine
itself was enormous. Our bus drove around slowly for an hour and a half showing
us the site. The infrastructure is
incredible. It has to be, they send out 100,000.00 tons of iron ore every day.
The town is mainly made up of young families and singles and
they are well catered for. It has a new modern shopping centre, primary and
high school and great social and sporting facilities. Apparently this will be developed further on
the back of the mining boom. Nine out of
every ten cars is a white Toyota 4wd with lights and a flag on the roof and
high vis stripes down the side driven by someone in a high vis shirt.
Whilst here we investigated our leaking hot water system
problem further. It would appear we have a cracked water tank. We had no option to drain it and turn it
off. We are hoping to get it fixed in
Geraldton when we are there in about 3 weeks’ time. For now it is cold water
only.
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