Yesterdays blog today - was a little off colour last night !!
Time to go for a ride , bikes ready , we head to the wharf - there is a bike path all the way out there, its 2.5klms . We arrive at what looked like low tide , but it was actually turning and had been for an hour or so . As we chatted to Emma on the phone , we watched a fisherman gathering bait fish with a cast net , he worked at it for about 20 mins and caught plenty , but he had to keep an eye on the water , it rose over a metre while we chatted to Emma for 40mins !!
That must have been the sign , as shortly after another 4 boats put in .
We then rode out onto the wharf , watching a lot of fish to 300mm long playing around in the shallow muddy waters . Back to town and the RV , sat and cooled down for a while before having lunch .
After lunch we headed out to get some fuel and sight see . The main street has a central island and they’ve planted boab trees in it - looks quite good !
Heading just out of town we found the Prison Boab Tree , that was used as an overnight gaol for prisoners on their way to the courts for some rough justice !!
There was a lot of aboriginal prisoners that were hard done by .
Beside here was also the Myall Bore - a 150m long cattle trough , used to water the cattle prior to shipping them out at the wharf . There was also Frosty’s Pool - a small concrete pool constructed by soldiers and used to cool down .
As promised here’s a photo of the termite mounds .
We drove down the Gibb River Rd again , this time the western end - much more civilised - this end has 80 klms of bitumen before the gravel starts . So now we only have about 600 klms of it to complete !!!
We had a final visit to the wharf to view high tide , as it was one of the highest today at 11.15m !!
We then sat & chatted to Bob & Sharon for a few hours before retiring early for the night - we did the cruise on Lake Argyle with them , and have caught up with them at a few other parks as well .
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