Taj 6

At 80 Mile Beach there were heaps of animals but there wasn’t much to do there other than fishing and go looking for lace monitors.  We went to the beach and had hermit crab races.  There were heaps of shells on the beach. I enjoyed it but not greatly.

 

Barn Hill was about a million times better than 80 mile because there was more things to do than just go fishing.  I patted lots of dogs, caught tree frogs, caught fish and put them into rock pools.  At night-time there were huge bugs so Ryley and I caught heaps of bugs then we caught heaps of frogs and put them together so the frogs had a feast.  We went out in the boat fishing and Dad got sick so Ryley and I played in the water and then Ryley said, “if you see vomit coming swim away really fast”.  It was so funny, we laughed for ages.  At night when I had a shower I had all these little frogs perving on me because there was no roof on the toilets.  It was awesome because even when you went to the toilet you could see all the stars, I’m glad it didn’t rain though.  There were Bridled terns and parrots sticking out of their holes squawking at you.  I loved Barn Hill and I can’t wait to go there again.

At Broome we set up at a nice place and had a relax for a few days.  We went to the 12 Mile Bird Park and the Mango House.   I loved the bird farm, they had a very angry swan that kept try to peck us.  They had Silkies there that were very fluffy and they even had chicks.  I loved seeing all of the pretty birds.  It was so hot at the bird park so we went to the Mango House to get a mango slushy.  The slushy was great, it had a real mango taste.  When we got back we had dinner with Harry and Ange, we were going to have a BBQ but Ryley ended up catching a huge Queen fish for everyone to share so we ended up cooking that on the BBQ.  It was delicious.

After some more relaxing beside the pool we left the caravan in Broome and drove to Cape Leveque.  We stayed at the caravan park.  It had beautiful beaches and great look outs.  We stayed in a hut with nothing but mozzi nets for protection.  Cape Leveque is an Aboriginal only area and we can only go in to certain parts if we have a permit.  At Ardiyooloo there is a fish hatchery, I got to feed the Barra.  When it snapped the fish from my hand it scared me.  That night we went to Djardijin to go night fishing with Bundy who is an Aboriginal elder in the community.  It wasn’t normal night fishing because we used spears instead of rods.  I loved it.  When we first got there we had to light a fire so we could see it when were lost and also to warm the spirits.  In the water we saw many different types of marine creatures including, three different types of turtles, a few stingrays and two deadly stonefish, there was also heaps of different varieties of fish.  We caught heaps of blue bone and we ate some on the beach after Bundy showed us how to cook it traditionally. The next morning we got up to make new spears with Bundy again.  We didn’t catch anything though and I missed the only crab.  We were allowed to keep our spear too. 

When we got back to Broome we went to a museum and there was a lot about WW2 where all the Catalina planes got shot down in Roebuck bay.  Because the tide was so low we were able to walk a long way out along the beach to see where the wrecks are.  We watched a couple of documentaries on WW2 and the people of Broome, I found them quite interesting.  The next day was ANZAC day so we went to the dawn service.  The dawn service was good but afterwards I was very tired.  That night we had a big BBQ with all our friends because we were all leaving the next morning except Chris and Josie because they stay there until September.  All us kids played for ages.

 

Now we’re driving for ages to get to Lake Argyle.  There are so many cows on the road it’s crazy, we even saw a caravan get head-butted by a cow.