Saturday 18th June (TED yesterday)
Well we're on our way again. Quick stop at the supermarket for a top up before leaving and in the glamorous world of motor-homing we had morning tea in the Safeway car park. Bottled iced coffee and a Safeway muffin.
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| Another way to arrive in/leave Broome This photo is taken from MM as we drove out of town. The runway runs right up to the road but I guess that speed hump and the cone would stop an out of control plane from running into traffic |
The drive away from Broome not that inspiring to start with and after a week in one spot it's taking us a while to settle into the driving.
Lunch stop is at one of the well placed overnight stops along the way.
After lunch and the scenery hasn't improved that much but there are a lot more cattle grazing on either side. Not to mention quite a few that may have strolled across the road too slowly and are now lying on the hard shoulder. Still couldn't talk Di into stopping to carve off a nice large rump steak though.
At one point there is a dead cow on either side of the road. I'm guessing they were standing in the middle of the road chatting and the last thought they had was "is that a road train coming around the bend?"
Derby was always a “you'll probably have to stop there just to break up the trip” kind of place and it doesn't disappoint, it's a disappointing kind of place.
The other reason to stop there is to do one of the seaplane flights out to the Horizontal Falls. Unfortunately we have decided that that trip is not going to fit into the plans this time around so we just booked into the caravan park for one night.
The Kimberley Gateway Caravan Park is quite a nice little park with reasonable facilities and comfortable enough for the night.
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| Di wanted me to publish this photo for our female readers |
Editors note: “on the turn”, that's a technical term my fisherfolk friend use to indicate when the tide changes from going out to coming in. It's a term also used in the club scene but I am told that's quite a different thing.
Unfortunately we didn't time it right and it was pretty unimpressive. To be honest the photo of the jetty in the Derby brochures must be of a different Derby and a different jetty. But these disappointments are all part of life's rich tapestry.
While wandering around the jetty we bumped into Tony and Jo again, so that's good news: wine o'clock is sorted.
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| A Unimog - now you don't see many of them around Very different to a uni-cycle. Except that you don't see many of them either Editors note: |
Unimog designates a range of multi-purpose auto four wheel drive medium trucks
produced by Mercedes-Benz.
The name Unimog is an acronym for the German "UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät",
Gerät being the German word for machine or device.
Does this blog never stop informing and entertaining?
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| Seriously the chances of us swimming again before we get back to Tweed Heads are getting really remote |
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| I say again - NO swimming |
It's also an extremely emotional day, as tonight we watched the last episode of Season 8 of NCIS and we are now completely up to date. No more episodes to watch until the new season is aired in the U.S. at the end of the year. OMG, that's something like 180 episodes we've watched and now it's all over. Glad we bought the boxed set of NCIS LA to keep us going, until Darwin!
Our viewing of the last episode was interrupted at one point when I noticed a flickering light through the curtains
Ooops, looks like piling a load of twigs into the citronella candle (because the wick was broken) might not have been the best idea. Oh well, at least there doesn't appear to be any mozzies about now.
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