Rainbow Back.

Money is the name of the game. Its why everyone is here. Its not the red dirt, no, or the road trains, no, or the salt mountains. Port Hedland was borne out of the love of money (some may say iron), and people flock here for the hope to reap the benefits. Western Australia, the state where Port Heddy resides, is home to 75% of Australia's profitable land- the stuff where gold and pearls and iron and those money making materials come from. About once every four hours trains kilometers long enter and leave this town, with carriage after carriage transporting iron away and to the rest of the world, and each carriage costs one million dollars. The overseer of this project, BHP Billiton, is the reason why people leave in this inhabitable area. Everyone is somehow linked to BHP, like it or not.

The town is 85% men, who all wear orange or yellow long sleeved shirts with reflective strips on them. All of them. They are all miners, iron miners to be exact, and all have a reason to be here, usually heartwrenching. Left wives at home to save money to pay the mortgage, dont have a family so decided to move to Port Heddy and get filthy rich for no real reason, the like. I am working as a housekeeper/bartender at the Walkabout Hotel. Most employees are flown up from cities like Perth or Adelaide, housed and fed on site, and leave in a month or two to travel north to Bali.