This blog is brought to you by courtesy of the free wifi hotspot at the Robe River rest stop. These rest stops are all through the Pilbara and Kimberely region and they all have these free wifi hotspots and they are all a 'welcome to country' by the local aborigine group. Good stuff eh!

This morning we packed up and left Cleaverville motoring gently over the unsealed, but not too bad road. Then into Karratha where we did a little shopping at the Karratha City Shopping Centre which is about 1.5 times the size of Dianella Plaza. It has woolworths and Coles along with target and Kmart and lots of other shops. I gather that Karratha is suffering from the mining downturn, like the rest of northern WA but the amount of major construction here is quite astounding, I wonder whether it will all stop now!

Then onward bypassing a police roadside breath test to the Fortesque River. There is supposedly a campsite there but, although it was a very nice spot with picnic tables and the river looked absolutely gorgeous there was nowhere to camp. So here we are at Robe River and this is also a very nice spot, more detail tomorrow.