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I sitting cross legged on my camp chair eating a carrot, writing my LJ for the past three days* and being incredible annoyed at the campers next door playing the most irritating music I can think of at this time.

11/6/10 We packed up camp and set off across to Gibb River Rd, which is an outback dirt road with large warning sighs saying “4 wheel drives ONLY . NO caravans!”and to top it of with no food or water for miles around. Or at lest thats what its supposed to be like, but it ended up being tarmac most of the way and when it wasn't it was quite tame in fact I think butts road was far worse and we drive that one every day without the use of a 4 wheel drive. Anyway now I'm done ranting on about that I should probable start talking about what we did. We terned of the Gibb and onto a smaller and far less tame road for about 18km to the Windjana Gorge Nat Park where we made camp. Me, P&N went for a walk up the gorge we say one freshy on a bank but the water was to dirty to see very far down so we didn't see many fish or there predator. We walked next to the vast walls of rock that creatored the gorge, which where very picturesque with the sunset. N&P Mimbi Caves, Windjana Gorge, Tunnel Creek and Gikie Gorge (the last two I'll get to later in this blog) are all part of a huge barrier reef that form in the Devonian period, which was about 360mil years ago.

We went back to camp, had our outback diner of reheated Chinese and shortly went to bed.

12/6/10 We woke to a lovely but cold morning packed up and left for Fitzroy Crossing. We drove over dirt roads that where quite bad and had to cross to shallow creeks. I've taken a liking to Fitzroy Not so much for the landscape, shops, beaches but for the community.Most places I've been to up here the blacks haven't been in any of the shops or doing much other then sitting around looking drunk and feeling theres no future for themselves. But here There in all the shops and only a few where looking hopeless. When we went to the shop the other day we saw a local AFL team playing, with what looked like all the other kids playing on the park or with a footy. Just thinking about it in detail I feel there is a much nearer end to the problem that the other places have made me feel so totally in despair about. There is still heaps that needs to be done, but this township has made me feel slightly less despairing about it.

Anyway we made camp as usual, had dinner and went clunk.

Oh and almost completely forgot on the way from the gorge to Fitzroy Crossing,we stopped off at Tunnel Creek which as the name suggest is a creek running through a natural tunnel going for a km through the reef that I mentioned earlier. Me, P and another man called Allen walked through the pitch black tunnel. Due to the fact it was indeed a creek we had to wade through part of it at one point I was up to my belly button (I'm not shore if this was coz' I wanted to go really deep or not but hey!) There where lots of bats hanging up on the roof I would guess around 200 and they where so loud and smelly (rather like my Dad. Now I know why he calls him self Eric The Fruit Bat XP.). It was quite hard to get over the rocks at the entrance ( and coming from me thats saying something) but after that it was really easy.

13/6/10 We went to Geikie Gorge this morning and had a boat tour up the Fitzroy River. We only saw 1 freshy coz' it was cloudy so there wasn't much point for them coming up to sunbathe. The Gorge was really awesome and picturesque. I'm really tired so I want go in to much more detail.

As I said the Gorge is part of the reef to.

We are going to a crater in the middle of nowhere so I want have any way of getting to the cyber world so I want be able to blog for a few days.

I'm really sorry about the photos so I'll send a CD of them to my family.

*or at lest procrastinating about writing it

Hi all, this is my second attempt at writing this blog since my computer crashed and lost what I had been writing.

8/6/10 We went off to the post office so Nan could post of the large mountain worth of post cards we had collected over the trip. While N&P where doing that I went and had a look for a book, since I had finished the one I had in less then a week (damn I wish books lasted longer). I ended up with a book called Red Dirt Dairies I haven't read that far in but it seems good.

We then set off down (or up I don't know) to china town to go to the pearling Museum. Nan wants me to do a short report on it.

Pearl Masters arrived in the early 1870s and diving began in Roebuck Bay, quickly making Broome the pearling capital of the world.
 
Japanese, Chinese and Islanders were the main divers, along with some local aboriginal people. They braved drowning, the bends divers paralysis and the storms that wrack the Kimberley in the cyclone season.

When they started the only had naked diving (IE Sending indigenous down to depths of 5 meters). Then hard hat diving was invented which enabled them to go to around 60 meters deep. To keep them selfs warm they needed three pairs of thick woolen stockings, jumpers , pants and gloves, They needed the large suit over the top and the helmit as well as about 100kg of waits. When you add it all together they wore about 150kg.

After the tour we went to the beach and I had a lovely swim. Then we got out and I went on a camel ride. The camel I rode was a lot like Pally.

I hope you get a ruff idea of the pearling

31/5/10 after a slow start to the day we set to the Tourist village next to Lake Argyle Which is the 8th largest man made Lake. Its so large that you need an  open sea license to boat there, coz' at some points in the lake you can't see the shore. We then went down to the dam wall. It was hard to believe that the wall was able to hold back the inland sea. Then we went down to the river side of the dam where I sat on a rock by the waters edge when I noticed a freshy about 1m away. I stayed on my rock watching the fish and the crocs ( there where three 1 by my feet the others just swimming around) until we left. And we returned to camp and that was really all.

1/6/10 I had a bit of a sore ear so we went to the doctor in Kununurra where the doctor ( who had the ultimate hippie shoes) took a look and told me that I had a outer ear infection* then we left and set off to Wyndham there wasn't really anything that interesting but I will at some stage have photos on flickr.

2/6/10 drove 600km saw some dingos, an eagle, had a picnic at a petrel station* and sat in a stinking hot car all day.

3/6/10 We went to the Mimbi caves where we went through a welcoming, climbed through 3 little caves one of which was a birthing cave I went up and sat where the women birthed (P wasn't allowed there coz' he is male). We also had damper for morning tea and talked about a large amount of stuff relating to the caves and the community.

*I thought it was a inner ear infection, but whats the difference!

*Lets just say the side of a petrel tanker has never look so wonderful.