I had already spent a full three weeks exploring the southern regions of the Pilbara and believed I had seen everything until I took a last-

My journey was along the inland route that started at Nanutarra Roadhouse off the NW coastal highway and headed 350km east towards Tom Price. It’s a beautiful drive across to the huge mining area of Tom Price with spinifex-covered hills and weathered-down mesa plateaus. I wasn’t expecting much at Tom Price but was pleasantly surprised with its tree-lined streets and modern shopping area. Purposely built in the late 1960s by Hammersley Iron as a mining town after huge amounts