Billy's Blog: August 2012

Friday, 31 August 2012

Billy's Camp No. 28. Derby

31/08/2012

I stayed at Derby for three nights and the pics below are of the jetty and the horizontal falls.Derby is also known as having the highest tides in the southern hemisphere and also the 2nd highest in the world. It also has the longest airstrip runway in the southern hemisphere, it was built to accommodate the space shuttle should it not be able to make it back to Cape Kennedy ?.
I'm in Broome and off to a cyber black hole at the Middle Lagoon on the Dampier Peninsular.

Derby's main street, looks like a big town street, but its not a big town and most shops are in the side streets

Low tide, the croc pic below was taken to the far right of this shot

High tide

Mega bucks

Both "vertical" falls. The larger one is 20m wide and 40m deep

Guess who was in the co-pilots seat...cranked over coming in to land

This is the smaller gap, about 10m wide and 40m deep. Its about the tidal water trying to go through a narrow space, there is actually a step in the water

Tawny nurse sharks

Veiw from the "mother ship"

Tidal creeks

Ooroo for now

Billy

Thursday, 30 August 2012

Billy's Camps No's 25,26 & 27...Gibb River Road

30/08/2012

Heyya All,
I'm at Derby and having trouble with this blog thing and not in the mood for computers, so briefly, I made it across the Gibb River Road and enjoyed it, something about dirt roads.....
I camped at El Questro for 3 nights, Manning Gorge for two and Winjana NP for 3, I saw six gorges and associated water ways and tunnel creek, all were Ok but Manning Gorge and Bell Gorge were the picks.
I'm off to Broome tomorrow for one night and am booked into Middle Lagoon on the Dampier Peninsular, near Cape Leveque ( hi Suzie ) for at least one week, and will pick up on Broome again on the way back down.