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The iron ore trains come into town daily with raw unprocessed iron ore from the mines further out. They can haul up to 336 carriages (known as cars) and usually have between 2 and 6 engines haulling the entire train that can be up to 3 kilometres long. It can take up to 20 minutes for the train to pass through a crossing.
Updated Apr 4, 2011
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Follow the tide out at a walking pace. As the water receeds, huge pools are formed and the fish that wern't fast enough to make it out through the narrow necks to open water are trapped. For beginners, you have a better than even chance of catching a whiting or two for dinner. I don't eat fish but I've heard they make a tasty meal. Bream and flathead can occasionally be caught at this time too. The best bait is squid or prawns which you can get frozen from any supermarket or service station.
Just watch out for shovel nosed sharks, stingrays and the odd stonefish (highly poisonous) which hide in the shallows. If you only walk on the sandy bits and don't go deeper than calf height, you should be ok. Oh and don't do what I did and answer the mobile before casting out. Whilst I was chatting on the phone, a starfish decided to take advantage of my bait lying on the sandy floor and tried to eat it. I had to peel the starfish off my hook!
Written Sep 3, 2006
Address: Beach right next to Cooke Point Caravan Park
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If you did have to stay in Port Hedland, longer than a day probably the only thing i can think that you could do apart from get drunk is go fishing down in the docks, we didn`t give it ago but saw some locals fishing down there and they were getting a few bites apparently theres a good number of Flathead in the area.
Updated Feb 27, 2006
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Go to the Tourist Information Centre in the main street and they can organise a bus tour of the plant. I took someone who grew up in the area with me and he actually thought it was quite interesting.
Written Sep 3, 2006
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Go to the Tourist Information Centre in the main street and they can organise a bus tour of the plant. I took someone who grew up in the area with me and he...
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Basically all i can say about Port Hedland is AVOID AVOID AVOID! The only reason why i go 4 times a year is for work! The place is just good for a stop over if your driving to Broome! Port Hedland......
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People come here thinking its a tourist town - it isn't. Iron ore production is the primary reason for the existance of this place. Port Hedland became the highest exporter of Iron Ore in the world in...
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We stopped in Port Hedland on our way to sunny Broome, we only stayed a night and a morning that`s all we needed really, not much to see apart from plenty of boats and ships working away and that`s it...
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Port Hedland is a big town, probably the biggest between Darwin and Perth but theres nothing really there, its a bit of a dive. Its a big port and very industrial. The pubs are abit rough, theres not...
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I had the opportunity to visit Port Hedland briefly, when the Lead Contracts Engineer on the MPDJV took me up for a site visit, whilst working in the Contracts Administration sector. Port Hedland is...
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