Driving out along the dirt road we stopped and looked at the Ashburton River as heaps of caravans, camper trailers and buses were all camped beside the river's edge. Apparently, it is good fishing and free camping for the first 3 nights and $5 per night. Not sure who managed that?
We were amazed when we reached the ruins left out at Old Onslow Townsite. A toilet, dump point and a shade with table seat for a picnic like we have found throughout the Pilbara region.
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| Information of the local Indigenous folk and where they have come from within the area. |
All that remains are the old stone buildings - Police Station, Goal and cemetery along with signs where buildings of interest stood before being moved over to the current township or on to local properties as homesteads etc.
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| Can you see the glass on top of this wall of the goal. Behind is the exercise yard so this deterred the prisoners from climbing the wall to get out. |
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| Loved seeing more wildflowers here as we drove through the lanes to read all the signs of interest. |
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| After reading all of these information boards, one could imaging how the local farmers were reliant on coastal ships to transport their wool and get supplies for themselves and the farm. |
Now days, planes fly into Onslow and I guess that is because of Fly In - Fly Out workers (FIFO) and the large road trains would transport into here.
The town has off-shore oil exploration (Wheatstone Gas Plant), a solar salt field has been constructed on the tidal salt flats surrounding the town. This is being stacked and a 3.5 klm conveyor belt moves it out to the 1.3 klm jetty for shipment.
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