Kalumburu

Back through the corrugations and onto Kalumburu, an aboriginal community on the coast in the North of the Kimberly. We got to Kalumburu and had a quick look around, the town was borne from a mission back in the day and the mission still exists with a small museum there, nothing much more that that. Oh, by the way, we had a look at the local diesel bowser to find out that the price was $3.75 a liter!!! The fuel comes in on a barge once a fortnight along with all the food for the town. As you could imagine the groceries were absurdly priced.



The reason for making the trek up here was to go and stay at Honeymoon Beach as we heard that it was a lovely spot. We made it out there on the worst road I have ever seen, bit of an adventure but the reward was a great spot on the coast and a private beach. The fishing here looked great as we watched a couple of guys gut and scale some fish they just caught, one of which was a giant trevalley that was 3-4 feet long! And I left the rods in the van...... amateur hour that was.....






We stayed the night in the camp ground there with the sound of the beach and waves crashing all night. Tracey got eaten alive by sand flies and mozzies, poor thing has bites from head to foot. We also went to have a look at McGowans Island that is the next bay across from Honeymoon, it was also a nice camp spot as well.

Back to Drysdale tomorrow and back on the Gibb.