Up at 4.30 to take a 6 am flight over this area. It was a small 6 seater propellor job and we had been adivsed to fly early so turbulence was less which it was. A brilliant flight over the vast farming area viewing the irrigation system and Lake Argyle, the Cardboard ranges and the massive million acre cattle stations. Only one person lives on some of these homesteads until muster time when they round the cattle up to ship abroad. Imagine living on your own that ...

We are now in Kununurra which is the Aboriginal name for meeting of the waters and is in the Eastern Kimberley area (population 6000 getting bigger). There are predominantly more Aboriginals here than anywhere else we have been but we are getting into the territory that still belongs to them. They are not spoken very highly of but they seem to be unemployed, noisey, abusive and waiting for the bottle store to open at midday. Took Ray by surprise as he was waiti...

We left Broome and headed for Fitzroy Crossing (home of the might "Fitzroy River, so all the guide books said). At last Ray would be able to spend a couple of days doing some serious fishing. The campsite was near the river and 4 stars - all was looking good. As we had seen some crocs swimming in another river we had crossed Ray asked if it was safe to fish. "O yeah no probs we do have crocs but they are freshwater so they will hiss at you, just move on...

We feel even more chilled out now if that is possible. Have spent 3 days just relaxing by the pool followed by sunset walks along the beach and there is certainly plenty of beach here. Of course we had to keep up with the local history and went on a tour of the Pearl Luggers museum - only a small place but very informative and interesting. They still have the last two pearl lugger boats on show. The mother of pearl industry was set up here in 1880's and what an...

After two days of driving we have arrived in Broome. On the way we saw modern day "Rawhide." As we were going along we could see several big dust balls ahead. Not knowing what to expect we slowed down to find thousans of cows (almost buffalo looking) being herded along and the cowhands were driving them sitting on quad bikes - how times have changed! Broome is a relatively small town to us but larger than average here (population 14,000). Not much ...