16/09/2012
This is going to be my last post in this trip, I'm going to head back to Darwin for a while and then back to Canberra, in time for my grandson's 1st birthday in November.
Total time on the road has been 7 months almost to the day, and I have traveled about 18,000 k's, which is not really that many for that length of time. Add on 3-4 k to get back to Canberra, I suppose.
I have still only seen two days of rain in the 7 months, and they were early on, back in camps No's 2 and 6.
I have caught 19 different fish species, most being new to me.
My favorite camps would have been in order, King Ash Bay, Middle Lagoon and Newland Head Conservation Park, all coincidently involving fishing and saltwater, but all three had beautiful vista's.
I am still trying to convince Gordon Butt of Mechanical Care at Belconnen, he should not have installed a fuel tank with a teaspoon of iron filings in it. Its now two months. Stay tuned, excuse the pun.
I left Derby and traveled to Broome where I stayed one night before going to Middle Lagoon for two weeks. I then returned to Broome for three nights, just in time to see the Raiders get hammered by Souths at The Roebuck Pub.The first game I'd seen them play all year.
Middle Lagoon is great, a protected bay to launch your boat and swim and another swimming beach and another two for extra fishing, 4 in total as well as rugged cliff faces and interesting rock pools at low tide.
I fished one beach for 3 days and beside getting busted off 3 times I still caught a GT and spangled emperors. Having convinced myself it was safe to take my small tinnie out into the open Indian Ocean waters, I fished there several times, getting hammered by god knows what. I did catch mackeral tuna and spanish mackeral. On the last day I had a double hook up with tuna, 10 and 15 kg line, and mayhem broke out , the guy in the pic below came over and took one rod, but we lost both fish and both lures :( . That is one reason why I'm not continuing down the WA coast, I'm under powered for the fishing, boat and gear. But I'll be back prob early next year and will definitely stop and fish local Broome, fishing galore to be done here. Perhaps with the aim of fishing the runoff for Barra, and maybe over to King Ash Bay again and maybe go to ..........
One could travel Australia 4 times and take different roads each time.
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| Cable Beach |
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| Willare Bridge |
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| The road to Beagle Bay |
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| Bulldust |
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| Sacred Heart Church- Beagle Bay |
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| Mother of Pearl shell is its main claim to fame |
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| Middle Lagoon cliff face at High tide |
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| Same rocky point at low tide. |
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| Middle Lagoon |
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| Spear Guns are prohibited at Middle Lagoon, LOL. |
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| Bardi community power supply |
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| Middle lagoon launch beach |
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| Middle Lagoon camp site |
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| My camp is the one on the right |
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| The Main Cape Laveque road after Beagle Bay |
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| Cape Leveque and island |
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| Cape Leveque again.... as pretty as it is, Middle Lagoon is better to camp at |
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| Chook island |
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| I would have seen 100 whales from boat and land, I now understand what the saying of "Having a whale of a time " means. Also saw many a turtle and dolphins. |
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| I love the water colour. |
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| A Spaniard |
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| A bigger Spaniard...they came a grabbed a rod when I had the double hook up |
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| Lost mirror , found, hooked by the tree brach |
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| I could easily become a local of Broome...trust me. |
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| Broome Jetty |
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| Ive seen many signs in the travels, this is one of the best. |
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| Broome cliff faces, better than Cable Beach, I think |
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| Cable Beach boat launch area, a boat ramp for bigger boats is on the other side of the peninsular. |
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| On the cliff faces |
As you may see from the above pic, I am not in the least worn out or stressed, just having a break from the travels.
Ooroo,
Bill, Billy and William.
