Why Hello there.
We are in Darwin, and its bloody hot!
Yep so we survived the Kimberlies, the Hilux survived the Gibb and we have survived our first few nights with Uncle Pete. Just. (lets just say it has been a wee bit hazy).
The Kimberlies were absolutely incredible; we spent every day in beautiful Gorges, swimming and exploring. Ill let the photos do the talking, they really don’t do justice to how amazing the place is but they do a better job than me.
Darwin is a nice city, if you can call it a city. We will be here for another week or so and then roll on down and across to Qld.
Don’t hold you breath for another blog, after Darwin there isn’t a whole lot of interesting places so I guess you will here from me when you hear from me.
Take care.
Howdy! Well this is what I wrote while I was in Broome but it never made it onto le internet. Enjoy!
Gday people.
I’m in Broome! Been here for about a week now and it is seriously a great place. Only a short blog as we are about to venture into the Kimberly’s via the Gibb River Road.
So where were we? Gnaraloo? Yeah heaven on earth, from there I ventured to Exmouth to pick Isaac up. Last time I saw him he was clean-shaven, inkless with gingerish hair, it was a funny sight to see a dreadlocked, blonde and tattooed dude complete with a red beard waltz off the little Quanta’s jet. And so began another chapter in my trip, we headed down to Coral Bay to enjoy the scenery, do a bit of snorkelling and settle Isaac in.
From there we headed to a station just south of the Bay, we spent a week there spearfishing, swimming and relaxing. The surf there was pumping basically the whole week but the long paddle to the reefs was a bit too adventurous for some and the sharks we watched cruising the channel looked a bit on the large side.
After a week of spearfishing and filling the fridge with parrot and emps the call was made to head to Gnaraloo to ease the surf cravings. When we rolled into to tombies car park it was absolutely firing, a bit on the big side especially for Isaacs first crack at the hollow left reef break so we settled for beers and spectating.
We had a few good surfs at a few places around Gnaraloo, a very memorable one at a right hander called turtles where we both had our fair share of empty 4 footers as well and whaling’s on the urchin packed coral reef. We thought we had some work lined up at the station but that fell through so we had to head north before our funds disappeared.
That lead us through Dampier, Karratha, Port Hedland, 80 mile beach and finally to Broome.
Broome has treated us well, our time here has included watching the famous staircase to the moon, ‘surfing’ the surfless cable beach, swimming in crocodile inhabited waters, catching a few mangrove jack and having a bit of a raging session at ‘The Divers’ which I wont say much other then brandy, goon, Champaign, beer and cigars do not mix well and can lead to memory loss and a killer headache.
And that’s a wrap!
You will hear from me again when I’m in Darwin in about 3 weeks.
Hope the world is well.
Catchya Cats
