Barn Hill Station - 23-27 August 2017

Broome has been our "home" for the past five days; Q+ needed her 10,000 km service (in just three months!) and the metal plate that served the 1,000 watt inverter was not strong enough to hold the 2,000 watt inverter that we had installed back in Katherine.  The metal plate cracked with its load crossing the rough Gibb River Road.  Thankfully it is all covered under warranty.

 We made our way south after picking up Q+ to Barn Hill Station and met up with Jim and Sandy again.  We were hurrying to get in and set up before sunset but ...  Sandy had pre-dinners and a lovely dinner waiting for us.  Bless!

 Barn Hill is situated on Thangoo Station, a working cattle station purchased in 1960 by the Grey's after Alf Grey had managed the station for ten years.  The property is approximately 430,000 acres and stretches 85 kms along the coast between Broome and Port Hedland.  Brahman cattle are run on the station and we were welcomed by some of them on our arrival.  They were quite frisky; prancing in front of the car and running alongside the car and the van.

Our Barn Hill Station "welcoming committee".
Our days have been filled with reading, doing cross-word puzzles and Sudoko, and fishing - and although we haven't been successful with the latter, we have enjoyed our time down on the beach watching the dolphins swim by and the whales breaching out in the ocean.  Maybe we should have saved our whale watching tour for here!

The "pinnacles"at sunrise.

Sunset over the Indian Ocean.

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