The past three days and a lot of reef

[breneta]

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

 

Comments

Worth the wait

[grand-moogi.livejournal.com]

Well this entry was definitely worth the wait. I got sick of logging in to see if you have posted another entry so I set it up to tell me when you do so.
You are certainly having a very interesting experience.
I am determined to go there some time.
Love lots

My theory

[grand-moogi.livejournal.com]

Hi, I just logged back in to let you know what my theory was about why your Dad calls himself Eric the Fruit Bat.
I always thought it was because he is as batty as a fruit cake.
GM

Re: My theory

[breneta]

I like it and it is definitely true.