Hello my friends. It’s been a while again. I hope this story makes some sense because I’ve been writing this in bits for a couple of weeks now. We left Carnarvon, we’ve gone on a massive roadtrip with a Swedish couple we met in Thailand. First we went up north to Coral Bay and Exmouth to go to the Ningaloo Reef and Cape Range. We did some snorkelling and fishing off the coast there. Our home made fishing rods and banana and cheese bait was unsuccessful however. Ah yeah, forgot to mention, we got like a hundred bananas ripening in the car. We nicked a big bunch on our last day of work on the farm. They were going bad otherwise anyway.
After that we went inland to Karijini National Park. It took us about 3 days getting there, every night we just camped out somewhere next to the road. We’re getting pretty good at making campfires by the way. It’s been great just sleeping under the stars every night. When we eventually got to Karijini we went hiking to see the gorges. It was about 35 degrees every day, so after a sweaty hike into the gorge there were 3 waterfalls and pools which were just amazing. Just have a look at the pictures.
After that we drove to Port Hedland, a stopover for us to get some supplies and not as crazy expensive fuel as in all the outback roadhouses. Not much to report from there, it’s just of big town where like all the iron ore gets shipped that they mine around here.
Then we eventually got to Broome where everything got really wet all a sudden. The first proper storm since we got here, the whole caravan park turned into a frikkin river. A bad time to realise our tent isn’t waterproof… and neither is the boot of the car. Shite! But nothing that a bit of silicone wont fix. Anyways, I’ve spent a evening on the famous Cable Beach trying to improve my harmonica skills… and beer drinking skills.
So after that long roadtrip, spending like a million dollars on fuel, we needed a job again and Kununurra apparently was the place to be. That meant 1044km trough the wildest part of Australia, the Kimberleys. Hooray! That was a awesome drive. Big ass eagles in the middle of the road eating dead kangaroos, cows and horses on the road everywhere. It nearly went all to shit when a car towing a caravan coming from the other direction towards us started skidding all over the road trying to avoid a lizard the was crossing. Things got a bit extra sweaty in the car for a couple of seconds. We’re OK incase you started worrying there! There’s 2 towns that you drive trough when you drive from Broome to Kununurra, Fitzroy Crossing and Halls Creek or Hells Crack as they say here. They are as redneck and inbred as they come I would say. Liquor restrictions got imposed on those towns because they got so bad, the only alcohol you can take away there is light beer. It was pretty fucked up. But we had a good 2 nights camping out in the Kimberleys and that was great. At night Jo spotted a dingo or a big cat of some sort sitting a few feet away from us.
So right, we are in Kununurra now, both of us are working which is good for the old bank account. We’re working on watermelon farms doing some preparation work for when the picking starts in a week. We’re staying in a hostel again, in a bed! Which felt really good after 2 weeks of just sleeping on a thin mat on the ground. We’re going to stay here for a month or 2, there’s a lot of work around. So that’s it for now. I will keep you guys updated on all watermelon related info and stuff.
Take care now, bye bye then
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