Saturday morning we set off for a fairly big days drive on the rough road. Stopped at a river crossing for a walk along the bank. At one point we couldn't see what Ellie was playing with, she was stamping a foot and trying to get what ever it was to move, then she barked at it which is unusual. So I had a closer look, it was a thin black snake about 60cms long, boy did move fast when I dropped a stick on it to see if I'd get a reaction. Then drove into a quarry ...

After shopping Tuesday morning we headed east on the Gibb River Road. Just drove a couple hundred kilometers and camped on the side of the road at Yammera Gap. It is quite a picturesque gap on the range that is the first after the miles of flat land of the coast. Had a walk, they have a modern diesel water pump quite high up on a stand probably to avoid floods, saw a couple of Roos. Wednesday we drove on, on the very corrugated gravel road although they tell me ...

Saturday evening we went to what they called a Marsharts event. It was held out on what they call marshes but I would call dry mud flats. These really flat dry cracked mud flats go on for miles. Anyway they had a very large screen mounted on a sea container out on the flats and showed a series of short movies later in the evening. Interesting that in these locally produced pictures the old aborigines said many times how they were born, raised and worked on the st...

Went for a walk just after day break. Circumnavigated the quarry, it's quite a way around but very picturesque with the Boabs and hills surrounding the water in the quarry. Climbed up one of the rock faces and found a very substantial cave system. I was impressed by how shiny some of the spots were where people had probably been going through for thousands of years. The ceiling of the main cave at the front was black from the fires they would have had there. I w...

After a good night we drove through to Fitzroy Crossing this morning. Straight to the information centre then across the single lane bridge over the river and up river to the old causeway crossing. The crossing is closed as the water is too high and the track down to it is washed away. As no one was around we had a bath and washed our hair. Went to the hotel and had an early lunch in the park across the road. Suddenly at 12 o'clock Aborigines just wandered in fr...