Port Hedland

Now this place probably isn't worth a blog, I don't even have any photos of it but I think it's worth a quick mention because of its weirdness.
We stayed there purely for a stop over between Eighty mile beach and Tom Price.We arrived at the caravan park to a board declaring they were full, lucky I'd pre-booked and strange as Port Hedland is no tourist mecca.As we soon discovered, this was probably due to the fact that they don't have many caravan sites available for tourists due to the fact that there are a lot of mine workers living in the caravan park permanently.
 Port Hedland is predominantly a mining town, the only real tourist thing to do in town is to take a tour of the mine.
We then were very surprised at the price of real estate. Whilst looking through a local paper, the average price of your average (very) brick suburban house was well over a million dollars- we couldn't believe it. That probably also explained the caravans parked in numerous front gardens because real estate was so expensive people had to live wherever they could find a spare bit of land. We also noticed the price of a very average unit to rent, $2300 per week!!!Let me tell you this was no Toorak!
Some other strange things we noticed were the security grills on all of the house windows at the front, the bins full of beer bottles and last but not least the breathalyser on the wall of the laundry in the caravan park??????Do you have to be under the limit to wash or perhaps the mine workers who dominated the place need to be sure they were under the limit to go to work???Hmmm Port Hedland- don't rush there.

Cable Beach (because I needed a photo)!