Cape Leveque

Good news is that the
tyre is not flat.  Bad news
is that the clutch is about to
get fried...

Deciding to take another holiday from our holiday, we headed over to Cape Leveque which is at the top of the Dampier Peninsula - Broome is at the bottom of it.  Its about 220 kms from Broome to Cape Leveque and about 100 kms of that is unsealed.  One would assume that it would be the last 100 kms but one would be wrong.  You travel over a very unsealed road for about 100 kms and then come on to a sealed road to travel the final 120kms.  Have to say that I was glad to see that bitumen but still cannot work out fot the life of me why they have a full bitumen highway that can only be reached by 4WD after driving 100 kms on an unsealed road unless it is to link the aboriginal communities that are up there.

219.99 kms of the dirt road was successfully managed.  We did come a cropper un the last120 metres when we got bogged outside out "luxury safari tent".  Lets just say that the clutch got a serious workout and we can still smell if if we use the air conditioner in the car. 

Proof for Fr Martin that we did go
to church while on this holiday...

Cape Leveque is a lovely place - basically it was a beach holiday with lots of frogs.  Apparently, given the last wet season was so wet, the frogs like it.  Mum is still not a fan of the frogs.  Especially the pesky one that croaked very loudly but we could not find him for the whole time we were there (2 nights). 

We were there during very serious tides so at high tide you had to get off the beach and at low tide you could not swim because the rocks in the water made it impossible.  Otherwise, it was a lovely part of the world.  Some of the team claimed to see whales - others believed them to be reefer whales.

An interesting part of it is that you cannot go into a number of the aboriginal communities without a permit.  Somehow (personally, I blame Pa, who is getting much more adventurous as the holiday wears on), we still ended up at One Arm Point where we saw the local indigenous fisherfolk had hunted (if that be the right word - I doubt they are all that hard to catch) a large turtle. But it has to be said that these communities seem to have it much more together than some others so hats off to them.

Finally, a photo of the whole team.  Sunsets are important
in this part of the world.