KARRATHA

Wayne has decided to stay over at Karratha for a week (mainly to make sure he has television for this coming weekend for Bledisloe Cup and the V8's).

If you need an auto electrician in Karratha, I can recommend Jolly Good Auto Electrics.  Wayne took one of our new batteries purchased in Kunnanarra two months ago, into them, found it was dead flat because when checking the alternator which was faulty because the repairs done at Ballarat last year did not effectively work.  Hence the alternator was not charging the batteries. They fixed the alternator after doing some other work on it in five minutes and recharged our battery for us.  Feel much better now as Wayne was sure something was wrong with the alternator the last couple of weeks.

Drove out to Cleaverville where traveller's camp right beside the beach and fish or swim.  The boat ramp is around south of the beach amongst the mangroves and looks like a great spot to fish and catch crabs from.

Cleaverville Beach looking towards Wickham

The estuary at Cleaverville boat ramp area.

Karratha was originally built in the late 1960's to serve the requirements for major industrial projects, such as Pilbara Iron, Dampier Salt and later, Woodside's North West Shelf Venture.

Love these characaters set amongst the salt ponds beside the road out to Dampier and the Burrup Peninsular

Beautiful wildflowers found around this part of the world as well as plenty of the yellow acacia's.

Karratha derives its name from an aboriginal word, meaning "good country".