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For those of you who do not know yet - the year 2016 is 400 years from the first recordered landfall of European explorers on Western Coast of Australia. Dutch captain Dirk Hartog arrived on his ship 'Eendracht' at Cape Inscription on 25 October 1616.

Dirk Hartog Island is an attraction destination and, at the same time, National Park under supervision of Department of Parks and Wildlife of Western Australia. The access is restricted to a certain amount of cars and people, allowed simultaneously at the Island.

Here below is the photo report from OC-206 Dirk Hartog Is DXpedition:

BHP Outlander - the turing point from the highway towards the Steep Point.

At 25 km mark from here is the start of 190 km long off-road

The entrance to Carrarang

"Are we there, yet ..." - 39 km to barge loading point.

We are meeting with rangers here, as the road is closed ahead due to heavy reconstruction

Here is Dirk Hartog Island (DHI) boarding pier

Department of Parks and Wildlife sign regarding nature restoration project of the Dirk Hartog island

The barge is approaching

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To get through the Island roads, you definitely want tyres to be below 20 PSI. Here we are, doing compliance test

Welcome to Dirk Hartog Island. 90 more minutes and we are at our QTH

Here is our road

Arrived at Ocean Villa 90 minutes later

Nice place, clean, lot of space, all you need for the proper IOTA pileup :)

The view from veranda

Catching first pileup

The local power station (morning view)

Morning tour through the local museum: wool press

19th century parking area

Modern ranger's horse

Noisy sea gulls living on that small island just off shore.

The local vegetation is not really reach, but it is very spectular

Beautiful Australian Wattle

Dragons living around

and bobtails coming to say "good morning"

AV-640 - main antenna for this activation

Evening veranda view

Moving to Cape Inscription on 17th of Aug

Some surprises waiting for us on a way down.

Half way through to the Cape Inscription. Looking down from the rocks, there are few sharks, they are going really close to the shore.

Wiliam Dampier landing site on 17 of Aug 1799

And here we are at Cape Inscription, Dirk Hartog landing site.

High rocks of Cape

Spectacular shore site

The Lighthouse

Unfortunately there was no chance for any QSO from here - wind was too high this day with heavy rain. But we captured couple moments to go around

Look from the edge

The most nothern part of the Island