Hunter River is as spectacular as many other big rivers in the Kimberley, with huge, ancient, colourful escarpments all around and large mangroves well adapted to the huge tides. A few crocodiles spotted in Porosus Creek and good fishing with a threadfin salmon for lunch. Our food supplies into week 8 are surviving well, due to our usual over-catering, as we just cracked the first pumpkin to make roasted pumpkin, feta, beetroot and bean sprouts salad. Chick peas and frozen green peas can also be added for crunch and colour.
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| first big barra, yummo |
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| eagle head rock |
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| sundowners True North style |
The creek was getting busy when True North, a large cruise ship, arrived, but they showed us a new way to enjoy sundowners when they rafted up their 5 dinghies and cruised down with the outgoing tide to the main river, singing as they went by.
how terns commute to work on the big tidal rivers
After all
the boats left next morning we had 2 days of peace and quiet on our own, so
quiet we could hear the rainbow pittas calling and watch the dolphins and
turtles feeding in the creek.
We passed
Caledonian Sky, a larger cruise boat, with their two helicopters ferrying
passengers to the beach on Naturaliste Island.
By the time we sailed up to Wary Bay on Bigge Island Caledonian Sky had
anchored and all the passengers were heading to shore in big black ribs to see
the rock art in the caves. The art here
was more modern, Wandjina style, with a burial site in one of the caves.
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| turtle tracks |
The Prudhoe Islands have spectacular rock
formations and a safe anchorage. We took
our breakfast picnic and iced coffee to the beach and found fresh turtle tracks
to and from a nest in the dunes. We climbed up the sandstone rocks for our
picnic with a scenic view over the Indian Ocean.
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| fresh turtle tracks on the beach up and back from the nest |
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| brekky with a view of the Indian Ocean |
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