An obvious recommendation was to stop at Karangahake Gorge and to do the Windows Walk, where you walk along gold mining remnants and through a dark mine tunnel (torches highly recommended).
Karangahake Gorge
Tag: mining
Nameless 4WD Fun
That day we definitely left the coast and drove around 500 km into the Pilbara region.
The last 44 km before our destination Tom Price was on unsealed roads. However, that was just a warm-up: we decided to drive upon Mount Nameless (official name!) to get a good sight over the town and region, especially at some mining sites.
Yes, we read that it’s gonna be a steep way up, but honestly, we underestimated it a bit, we didn’t expect to come across such big holes, rocks and jumps. But we reached the peak (1128 m), the highest vehicle access in Western Australia. Check. But we also reached the highest temperatures so far: 40° C even under a cloudy sky with a few rain drops.