Days 57 – 66

Derby

We didn’t do much in Derby. We took Matt to the hospital because of his rash. Luckily it was fine. A car got stolen from the caravan park we were staying at – it was still chained to a caravan. The caravan got pulled into a tree before the chain broke. We woke up to hear the crash and the car zoom away. In the morning a motor-home reversed into our car. Luckily we only got a small dent. We didn’t need to get our lights fixed this time.

We drove around this jetty.

 

Matty drew this picture at Mark Norval’s Gallery. Mark gave him the shells.

 

Che drew this picture of a bird swooping down to catch a fish.

 

On the way out of Derby we saw this Prison Boab Tree. It is about 1500 years old.

 

Broome

Broome was really nice. We didn’t want to leave.

Che is on the old jetty. Can you see the plane in the background?

 

Matt is standing next to a pearl diver.

 

We saw Sammy the Dragon doing his dance at the opening night of Shinju Matsuri (Broome Pearl Festival).

 

Che is at the town beach.

 

Matt and Mum are at the town beach too.

 

We saw the Shinju Matsuri Street Parade. There were people watching the parade with water balloons at the ready. They got into a water fight with theses fire fighters.

 

We are at Cable Beach. We jumped the waves.

 

One afternoon we went on a camel ride on Cable Beach. Mum got a free pair of pearl ear-rings. How come we didn’t?

 

There was a great big jolt when the camel sat down at the end.

 

At Malcolm Douglas’s Crocodile Park we all held the baby croc. We’re not sure if it was a freshie or a saltie, but we were glad its mouth was tied shut.

 

 

These are some crocs getting fed. They are snapping at each other. The pond was green as grass.

 

The man patted this American Alligator. He said they make good pets if you feed them a lot. Salties do not make good pets, ever.

 

This is Matt getting his arm bitten off by a crocodile.

 

This is the sun setting at Cable Beach.

 

We went to look at the dinosaur footprints when the tide was really low. We saw this coral.

 

Matt’s foot is next to a dinosaur footprint.

 

This is another dinosaur footprint.

 

This is a pair of dinosaur footprints.

 

We are looking for more dinosaur footprints. Matt thinks he has found one.

 

These are barnacles, or as Captain Haddock would say, ‘billions of blue blistering barnacles’.

 

Che found these weird black things called chitons.

 

Dad walked out (and ran part of the way) a kilometre when the tide was low to see this wreck of a flying boat from WWII. The sun had set by the time he got there (he did start just before the sun set). He is at the town beach which is on Roebuck Bay.

 

We looked at starfish instead.

 

We watched the moon rise. It looked orange when it was rising and you could see its reflection on the sand flats of the bay. This is called the staircase to the moon.

 

 

We have now driven for 3 hot days and are back in Mataranka. Let’s go swim in Bitter Springs now. Bye!

We’ll be home before too long. Look out for our next post…it might be our last one…