A rather unpleasant wakeup just after 5am by the person staying next to us who warmed up his smokey 4wd for a good ten minutes before heading off. After going back to sleep I headed off to Dampier at 8am for the Hamersley Iron Tour.

The tour was fairly interesting, with a bus ride into the Parker Point facility, then across the causeway to the East Intercourse Island facility. At both locations we observed the rail car unloaders, and the big stockpile feeders and stackers. The tour also gave more stories about the infamous Dampier