This post is about the part from Exmouth to Karijini via Port Headland. Happy reading! 🙂

If you’d like to read the previous part of the trip, click here: Part 3: From Exmouth to Karijini.

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The next morning, we did some more hikes and enjoyed swimming in the park. You’ll notice the weather: Always blue sky, very sunny and hot. This weather was going to be similar for the next 2 months!

Kariji National Park

 

Yayoi at Kariji National Park

 

Kariji National Park

 

Kariji National Park

 

Kariji National Park

 

Kariji National Park

 

Kariji National Park

 

Bats in a tree at Kariji National Park

 

Kariji National Park

We left Karijini National Park in the afternoon to join the Great Northern Highway and head to Port Headland. This highway is the place where I saw the longest road trains of my whole trip. 😀

Road train on the Great Northern Highway

 

Overtaking a road train (best part at 0:38)

 

Road trains on the Great Northern Highway

 

Very long road train at a petrol station

 

8 road trains in a row… (starts at 0:15)

 

Road trains on the Great Northern Highway

 

Ok, sorry, I’ll stop with my photos and videos of road trains! xD

Really don’t know what Yayoi was doing! xD

We arrived at Port Headland when it was already dark and slept in a car park near the beach.

The petrol was getting more expensive. We used our spare tank and saved thus a lot of money. 😉

Salt stockpile at Port Headland

 

Salt stockpile at Port Headland

 

Big cargo ship at Port Headland

We stayed at Port Headland only one night and started our trip to Broome the next day.

We drove for about 440km and stopped at a campsite on the Great Northern Highway for the night. On the way, we tried to stop at the beach, but the roads going to the beach were either only for 4WD cars or too expensive to access.

Free campsite on the Great Northern Highway

 

Free campsite on the Great Northern Highway

 

Free campsite on the Great Northern Highway

The next day, we drove the last 240km to Broome, the final destination for Yayoi. We arrived at Broome as planned. Even a bit earlier. Perfect to see the staircase to the moon. Old Coconut was doing her job perfectly even though she had already done more than 400’000km in her life! 🙂

Cable beach at Broome

 

Cable beach at Broome

 

Cable beach at Broome

 

Camel riding on Cable beach at Broome

 

Camel on Cable beach at Broome

 

Yayoi at Gantheaume Point

 

Full moon at Gantheaume Point

 

Yayoi eating the full moon at Gantheaume Point ^^

 

Me touching it at Gantheaume Point

 

Sunset at Gantheaume Point

That evening, we saw the famous staircase to the moon, but it was a bit cloudy. 😉

View from the campsite at Broome

The next day, we visited a bit more of Broome. Went to the market, visited the Japanese cemetery and other wonderful places.

Japanese cemetery at Broome

 

Cargo at Broome

 

Broome

 

Milky way at Broome

That evening, we saw the famous staircase to the moon again. It’s amazing to see it in real! This phenomena appears approximately every 30 days for 3-4 days around full moon time. At that time, the tide is extremely low and there are many little pools on the sand in which we can see the reflection of the moon as it goes up. That’s what gives us the illusion of a staircase.

Staircase to the moon at Brrome

 

Staircase to the moon at Broome

The next day was the last for Yayoi. She took the plane to Japan from Broome airport as planned. We had a really good trip together. 🙂

A few minutes later, 2 other Japanese classmates (Sumire and Chïaki) came from Perth and landed at Broome to visit this little city. Chïaki would visit only Broome and Sumire would travel on the Gibb River Road with me. 🙂

 

Sumire and Chïaki at Gantheaume Point

 

Gantheaume Point

 

Gantheaume Point

 

Sunset at Cable beach in Broome

 

Milky way with a shooting star at Gantheaume Point

We took photos of the milky way before the moon rise at Gantheaume Point. On that photo, something very weird appeared. There are a few lines that seam to start from the same point like shooting stars, but each line had something like a point at the start and another at the end…  If anyone has an idea what that could be… 😉

Milky way with something that I can’t explain (…) at Gantheaume Point in broome

 

 

Staircase to the moon at Broome again

 

Coconut on Cable beach in Broome

 

Low tide in Broome

 

A starfish at low tide in Broome

 

Dinosaur footprint at Gantheaume Point in broome

 

Airplane at Broome

 

Broome

 

Sumire’s writing is amazing!

 

Me at Gantheaume Point

 

Me at Gantheaume Point

 

A dead snake just next to Coconut in the camp site

 

 

Homemade pizza

After 3 days visiting Broome, Chïaki went back to Perth as planned. We drooped her off at the airport.

Our crazy Gibb River Road trip was about to start! 😀 Read my next post. 😉

Distances

Here are the distances of this part of my trip. 🙂

Day 9 (14.09.2016): Driving: 447km. Walking: 1.3km
Day 10 (15.09.2016): Driving: 444km.
Day 11 (16.09.2016): Driving: 241km. Walking: 1.5km
Day 12 (17.09.2016): Driving: 6.6km. Walking: 2km
Day 13 (18.09.2016): Driving: 26.6km
Day 14 (19.09.2016): Driving: 32.3km. Walking: 1km
Day 15 (20.09.2016): Driving: 36.7km
Day 16 (21.09.2016): Driving: 71.4km
Total: Driving: 1,305.6km. Walking: 5.8km

Distances may not be totally accurate. 😉

Map generated automatically by Google Maps showing the itinerary of this part of my trip (created thanks to the GPS of my smartphone). Enlarge the map to see the details. 🙂