“Dampier” Darrenstravels’s photos around Dampier, Australia (town centre dampier austraila)

Preview of Darrenstravels’s blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Dampier, Australia Entry Title: “Dampier” Entry: “It’s almost 600km from Exmouth to Karratha, and after driving almost non stop for 7 hours, I was looking forward to getting to Karratha. Billed as the “shopping destination of the Pilbara”, it’s a fairly large town for this part of the world, for example it had a KFC. And a K-Mart. Civilisation indeed. Sadly, the excitment was short lived. The Visitors Information centre was fairly useless. Didn’t even have a map of the area. In fact, we had to rely on a cartoon map from a leaflet we picked up back in Carnarvon. The only things in the centre were to do with the local industry (iron ore, gas and salt), and fishing. Caravan Parks weren’t much better. We tried three of them, turned away from all as being full or long term only. Didn’t look full. So, after grabbing some stuff from a supermarket (including a cheap hair shaver for me), we went the 20k or so up to Dampier. We managed to get the last space in its sole caravan park. I say space, we were just allowed to park on their road. Whilst in the office there, I asked if there were any Snakes around, seeing as there was a warning poster up saying they are spotted in the area. “Too Bloody Cold Mate” was the reply. Well that’s annoying. Australian Snakes are some of the most dangerous on …

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