Karratha is a very modern town when you compare it to all the other towns we have visited in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions, also the photo below shows the town in 1972. Obviously “mining” is the main reason for the transformation. We spent the afternoon touring around Karratha and the nearby town of Dampier, which we did not visit back in 2020. Not quite the size of Port Hedland but Dampier is still a big mining port, also the huge North West Shelf Gas project is HQ’ed in Dampier. A little bit of trivia, in a straight line, Karratha is the furtherest town/city from Melbourne on mainland Australia, so we are basically as far away from home as we can be whilst still being in Oz (excepting Australian territory islands).