Big Rigs in the Pilbarra

(March 22, 2011) My family drives trucks, long haul big trucks, but nothing like the trucks in the Pilbarra. We drove from Exmouth into the interior to see the Karijini National Park -- in a land as flat as Australia the Karijini and the Hamersley mountain ranges of the Pilbarra provide some interesting contrast.

That red dust of the Australian landscape is red for a good reason -- it's the rust of iron ore. This truck is on display at Paraburdoo where they have an open pit iron mine. The vehicle is huge and reminds us of one Tony, my brother, took us to see in Western Canada. He likes big rigs, he'd love this one.

We stayed nearby in the town of Tom Price at the Karijini Lodge run by Rio Tinto (there's another big mine nearby). A typical mining town with few options for tourists like us.