here is another page from my trip about the last 6 weeks that I spent in Broome with Brendan.
Daryn (Brendan housemate was with us) left Broome at Christmas evening but we all had a good time together playing Monopoly, some dice games, Backgammon (with the hard rules) and some other games.
The day before Christmas we even started to built up a Carera racing course and had some fun with this.
During the first week in Broome I rented a Motorbike a little Vespa so I was free to go shopping and into town or to the beach (what I did quite often ) when I wanted to and since Brendan and Daryn had to work I spent most of the day on my own.
Brendan was again cooking for all of us and he is a real cooking wizzard.
The picture resolution is not that good today, but then the downloading goes faster, and you can pick the pictures to get them bigger and in better quality.
Then on the 27 th we drove to Wickham near Karratha (800 km south of Broome) to meet Jan and Paul (his parents from Perth) as well as Jan's brother Cliff and his wife Leanne and their 3 children Nadine, Shaun and Kelsey.
What a trip! Hi Cliff and Leanne, thank you again for your great hospitality!
On the first 600 km from Broome to Karratha I counted ~30 cars on the road and maybe as many dead Kangaroos. I wonder how these few cars can kill so many of them. We drove from 5 am til 1 pm and were both glad to arrive so eary because it was a very hot day.
Jan and Paul came some hours later from south and after a wonderful Dinner we all went to the beach to watch the Turtles while they lay their eggs. It was amazing for all of us.
These big over 1 meter diameter Turtles who get onto this beach, dig a hole and ley their eggs. We watched them and when they are finished they tried to cover the nest and get back into the water.
I have lots of pictures of them, but unfortunately gave all of them away and already sent the negatives home.
So if anyone (Brendan, Jan ?) can scan one or two of the best turtle pictures and email it to me? Thant would be great, otherwhise you have to wait until I got home.
The next day Jan and Paul got the bad news that someone broke into their house and stole the save. So they decided not to stay longer, they wouldn't enjoy it, and instead went back to Perth.
That was very sad, not just because they left but because also of the precious jewleries and other things which were gone. I hope the police was successful and found the thieves and some of your things.
The next days were very busy.
We went Mudcrabbing which was a real adventure for me.
Mudcrabbing is something where you put closed shoes on (no sandals), a long sleeve shirt and lot of mosquito repellent and then walk through the mangroves at low tide (they are usually very muddy then) and try to find the holes where the crabs are living. You dig into the holes with a metal stick and if you are lucky and experienced enough you can hear from the sound of the stick that a crab is in there.
Then you try everything with this stick and maybe with the sticks of the others to get this crab out of his hole.
Once it is out, you find a brave strong man who is courageous enough to hold the claws of the crab and then you tie it together with a rope before you put them in a sac.
Sometimes the crabs try to escape and one should prevent that but carefully and possibly with the stick not with the fingers.
At the end of 2.5 hours crabbin we ha 6 crabs (all o them found found by the two experienced men Cliff and Brendan, I found not one!) but the mozzies found me.
So most of us were muddy, bitten and exhausted just from walking through the mud looking for crab. Days later we went fishing and I decided that is more my thing, although the crabs were very delicious.
With fishing we were even less sucessful in Wickham but it was nice to make a ride in Cliffs boat and the fishing itself was very relaxed.
Later on I went fishing in Broome with Brendan and we got lots of fishes, small ones but enough for a delicious dinner.
Cliff who is working at Robe River Mining Co drove us arround at the loading area where they crack the raw ironore and store it on little hills until it is transported onto the ships.
A huge plant and quite impressive.
We also drove to Dampier where they have t a big earthgas loading station. Pipelines and big tanks where the gas is stored before they load it.
Back inCairns I went to the Willie Creek Pearl farm and learned something about saltwater pearls.
Then on the 5 th of january after 6 wonderful weeks I left Broome and Brendan under tears and flew to Cairns.
Here I am now and continueing my trip.
I already went to Kuranda by Skyrail and back in the scenic train.
Then I spent one day snorcheling on Green Island and did a 2 -day trip to Cape Tribulation. I stayed in a tent in the rainforest and did a 3 hour horsebackriding trip through the tea plantages of Daintree and through the Rainforest and National Park. I really enjoyed that. I am going on a 3 day sailing and Scuba diving trip tomorrow, so maybe later this week I have more pictures and more to write about Cairns before I leave south.
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