A turf farm |
If you look in the white water there is the boat that goes through the fall you have to catch a sea plane to do that. |
Our Plane is the first one |
Derby Jetty |
On the way to our next stop Fitzroy Crossing .
A turf farm |
If you look in the white water there is the boat that goes through the fall you have to catch a sea plane to do that. |
Our Plane is the first one |
Derby Jetty |
Pearl Lugger |
Cable Beach |
Camel rides on Cable beach |
They let the cars drive on Cable Beach |
Oh No they ran over her hehehe |
Low Tide 8am |
High Tide 11am it came up so fast . |
Little soilder crabs Close up of a crab |
There are about 3000 refugees up here in camps at the last roadhouse we stayed at the interperters stayed there. |
boat left just in front of site |
our site, in the distance is the telegraph pole that the pool is named after . |
720 Barra Paul caught about 8 this day he'd go out in the morning then come back to camp for lunch and then about 3pm he would go again .the size was 300 to 720 this day. |
900 Barra , it was a bit windy today and Paul only went out in the arvo we went for a drive in the morning. he let the 900 Barra go as we had enough to eat (we only keep for couple of feeds) |
Action shot - Eagle picking up the 720 Barra head |
the telegraph pole |
this old house belonged to a German guy they called "the hermit" he lived there for years and he had to build that top part for the wet season. He died about 2 years ago |
this boab tree was just behind our camp |
Paul had to pick him up and say hi. bluey. |
Here Paul is taking a nut off the tree, he is going to carve it.(will show u the finished product) |
On the way to Derby for the day. |
Get off the road Paul. |
Derby Jetty you drive on one side and fish the other. |
Derby Jetty it a U shape the tide is moving so fast here there is not much else at Derby . |
oh there is this it is called the prison boab, they did keep prisoners in there while travelling from town to town. |
Back of prison boab the trunk is smooth . |
Big boy. |
every morning they come down to drink. |
I finally caught one (put him back too small to keep ) the next day I caught another one about same size. |
Willare Roadhouse we stayed there 3 nights. |