Port Hedland is an interesting stop-over and surreal looking as red earth is set against the stunning blue waters of the port. The engine room of the current resources boom, Port Hedland is predominately a working port town. Massive mining infrastructure can be viewed readily from the main street with long trains and big ships. This is the largest bulk tonnage port in Australia and second in the world. The coast around Port Hedland is great for fishing, watching nesting Flatback turtles in season and beach combing.

Most of the town's people live at the satellite town of South Hedland, which was established due to cyclone damage caused to the land surrounding the original town. South Hedland is quite modern, once housing the largest shopping centre outside of Perth.

Focused entirely on the extraction, processing and exporting of iron-ore from the massive deposits in surrounding ranges, Port Hedland does have a couple of pubs and late night venues. Like many mining towns in the region, the male population far outways the female. Its hinterlands are dry areas with ranges, rock formations and grasslands.

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