We have officially hit the panic button… our shortage of gas
is a problem… I didn’t get my morning coffee today so clearly, this is a
SERIOUS problem! We have turned off the
fridge in the camper and moved all the food into the car fridge. We are hoping this leaves us enough gas to be
able to cook dinner (and make coffee) for at least the next week. Our guess is that El Questro is the next
place we can buy some gas, but El Questro is at least 500km away and probably a
week away with stops in between.
Normally, I would have taken this photo with my
coffee in my hand to show the view from the camper… the only thing missing is
the coffee… Yes, that’s an emu…
It was high tide at about 10am so we hit the beach for some fishing. There was no wading in to knee deep water here… and one eye was constantly on the shallow water. As usual, Megan showed us all up. She is amazing… she has this dinky little kids bait caster but as soon as it hits the water she snags the fish. Within the first minute she’d pulled in a couple of small fish and then continued to pull in increasingly bigger bream. I don’t get this fishing caper… how can I stand a metre away from her and get one measly bite (no fish to show for it) all morning?
After lunch we jumped in the car to go exploring. When we arrived in Kalumburu, we had a choice of two spots to camp, here at McGowan Island or over at Honeymoon Bay. Out of curiousity, we headed off to check out Honeymoon Bay. It was a lovely beach… much nicer than here… but still unswimmable. However, we have the shadier spot for camping. We caught up with a family we had met the previous day in the supermarket. They had been given some snapper wings and were smoking them as we chatted. Luckily we’ve got Dave, who can chat all day long (he went to brush his teeth the other day and it took 45 minutes because of his need to talk to everyone between here and the bathroom…)… so we managed to chat long enough to score a taste…
Back at camp it is hot… the first real heat we have had on our travels. It is probably somewhere around 34-35 degrees and we can’t jump into all that water…so frustrating. We have had to make do with buying an icypole and sitting under the shade of the mango tree. For the first time on the trip the ukulele has come out of it box…
We let the afternoon sun go down a bit then took off up the beach. We had heard at low tide there are oysters to be found. Apparently the people camping next to us had oyster soup for dinner last night. Here’s a shot of all the rocks exposed at low tide.
We found some oysters, and being good boy scouts, we were prepared. We had bought along a screwdriver… Dave managed to pry one off the rock. Although the kids had been banging on about eating an oyster, once they saw what it looked like on the inside neither were game enough to try it… Aiden was just disappointed there was no pearl inside…
Walking back along the rocks we found this shelter someone had made.
As I sit here typing, Dave and the kids have come back from a late afternoon fishing session. Aiden is rather chuffed with himself as he caught this bream. Apparently some bloke gave us the snapper. Looks like we’re having fish for dinner…
I thought our day had ended there… I was wrong. I have had to fire up my PC again to tell you
about the awesome treat we just received… our very own fireworks show! We had eaten dinner and were washing the
dishes when the camp host guy drove past in his dune buggy. He stopped out front and said something along
the lines of, “We’re gonna set off some fireworks, be on the beach in a few
minutes”. We didn’t need any more
prompting than that, we dropped everything and headed to the beach. The guys then proceeded to let of a whole
stack of fireworks. These weren’t just
any dinky little fireworks… these were the same ones you see at the Skyshow…
and they were going off directly above our heads… what an awesome way to end
the day…
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