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Today was awesome and Benjies favourite day of the trip so far. We spent the day with an aboriginal guide making spears and hunting for mud crabs as well as learning more about aboriginal culture. Our guides was named Bundy and he led us and 2 other families into a place called Chillie Creek. Bundy also had his 2 young kids with him. For the spears we used branches of young wattle trees which we heated over a fire to make them straight, next we attached a metal tip to the spear using a strong fishing line, then we went hunting! Bundy found us 2 huge mud crabs which the kids all speared like true warriors. We cooked them over the coals and they were delicious. On the way home we stopped to pick up Bundys older kids who had been out spearing fish. The tide was turning and as we were up on a bank and the water was so clear, we could see all sorts of fish swimming into the creek. We saw small sharks and plenty of rays as well. All this time Bundys older kids were in the water spearing fish. They gave each of the 3 families a large mangrove jack to cook up for dinner.
We then drove further north to Kooljaman at Cape Leveque which is a resort on aboriginal land with different types of accommodation from exxy to camping. Tonight we have a beach shelter which has a thatched roof with a picnic table, sand floor and open shower and it is just 7 steps from the beach. The kids are loving the beautiful warm water. We drove to the western side of the cape (just over the hill) to watch yet another stunning sunset and then came back and cooked up our freshly caught fish for dinner. Geoff and Benjie are sleeping under the stars tonight!
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