There is a lot to do around Cape Leveque. There is of course the many tours offered from Kooljaman that range from Cultural Tours, Spearmaking, Fishing, Mudcrabbing and Flights but also the surrounding communities such as One Arm Point and Lombadina. We headed out to One Arm Point as we had heard about the well stocked store and Hatchery. You can buy long life milk to washing machines at the store. I got so excited that when I went to the cashier I brought our little trolly onto the wrong side (right beside the cashier)- anyone would think it was my first time shopping. To enter One Arm Point you don't have to cut off one of your arms as Michael kept telling the girls (another Dad joke) but you do have to buy a day permit which is $10 per adult, which also included entry into the Trochus Hatchery.
Trochus Hatchery. The Trochus shells are absolutely beautiful and are a cone like shell all polished up. Our neighbour on the beach shelter bought us one as we gave him some spare parts for his car. We love it.
As you can see Olive was thrilled to be there and was lucky to not get her fingers taken off by a hungry barra at feeding time. She was however very excited to see Brian again as he was on a tour and arrived at the Hatchery the same time.
Lion Fish was one of the fish in the tanks. The reef just a km offshore at the Hatchery had some amazing giant clams, huge rock oysters, blue ringed octopus and some lovely Salties. You can walk out to the reef only if you know what you are doing as the tides come in so so quickly and of course there are a few crocs!!!
This is the view from our beach shelter which was home for 4 glorious nights.
Our beach shelter came with a shower (far right hand corner), water, picnic table, fire pit and timber for fire.
We went to Cygnet Bay Pearl Farm for lunch as they had a new cafe/restaurant open and it was really busy. The food was great as was the Mango Beer. It's a fairly remote area and so it's always surprising after driving along a bumpy sandy track to find such a vibrant little place. We got chatting to another family there also having lunch and ended up spending the next day with them as Michael went out fishing with Corey in his tinny and us girls swam and made shell necklaces.
On our last day we had one last swim in the beautiful beach just out the front of our shelter and made tracks to Lombadina. Lombadina is a beautiful indigenous community with neatly clipped lawns and gardens, art and craft shop, unique church, general store, bakery and cabin accommodation. We fuelled up and as well as bought a few things from the store.
Beautiful hand crafted timber used in the building of this Church.
On the bitumen to Derby we were flagged down by a mate from Michaels work and so we all pulled over on the side of the road to have a chat- many thousands of Kilomteres from home and it's amazing who you meet.
We are on our way to Derby to meet my Mum and Dad and to spend a few days with them at Windjana Gorge and Tunnel Creek. We are then on the Gibb River Road for about 3 weeks where we are assuming there will be no internet coverage, so if you see a post within the next few weeks it may mean that we have blown a shock, diff or some other car part that I don't know about on the GRR and have been towed to Kunnunurra.Hopefully our next post will find us safe and sound and lots of new stories on the other side of the Gibb.
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