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Day 35 – Tom Price


Only a single day in Tom Price … but we’re here a day earlier than expected too. That means we’ve got a day up our sleeve to use before we get to Broome. So an extra night at Karajini, 80 mile beach or Broome. It has to happen somewhere, so we’ll see what happens.

Today we had booked a mine tour … at 3pm. What else can you do in a drinking town with a mining problem? Plenty actually. We settled on checking out a few lookouts and sights as there weren’t really many other activities that caught our attention.

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Day 34 – Tom Price

We were up at 6am and on the road at 7:30am.  The brumbies were awaiting our return and this time we had apples for them.  For wild horses they’re pretty tame.  A short stop at the wreck of the SS Mildura soon had us at Exmouth.  A chance drop in at the local bottle shop saw us replenish our stock at prices equivalent to home.  A slab was about $43 compared to the $56 that I’d paid in Coral Bay.  Needless to say we now have more beer than available storage … not that that problem will last long out here.  It’s warmer than the 30 degrees the thermometer suggests.

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