Frontier Town

4 hrs of driving with 1 Roadhouse in the middle has got us to Newman, a BHP town centred around a big iron ore mine.
Crossed the tropic of Capricorn.
Every vehicle is white and has a red flag on a long antenna. Everybody wears yellow fluro shirts. It seems a busy thriving town in the middle of nowhere. Ocre is the predominant colour.
We were not able to book a mine tour...they only run on Fridays at the moment.
Powered site on the edge of an oval as no caravan park open in town.
Woolworths!!!!!
Dinner at the Newman Hotel, very busy with large groups of young people who all appear to work together.

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