Kimberley Outback Adventure (Part 6)

 

 The mob invited us to spend the day fishing with them

at Port Warrender which was very special.

Port Warrender is only 44km from the Kandiwal 

Community but it took us nearly 3 hours to get there! 

This video will give you an idea of what the "road" was like.

 Overlooking Port Warrender from the lookout.

 

Boab tree.

We flew over the fishing spot on our helicopter flight the day before.

 Jazzlyn and Taniayah caught most of the fish.

First off Jazzlyn threw in a net to get bait. 

I have a great video but it is too big for to post to the blog. 

They then used hand reels to catch the fish.

Winston, Scotty and Kingsley spear fishing.

These are the fish we bought home. 

They are Fingermark fish, also known as Golden Schnapper.

 

We were too tired to cook them by the time we got 

home so we had them for dinner the next night. 

They were so delicious!

That's the end of another day on our big adventure!

Kimberley Outback Adventure (Part 5)

 

We headed to Mitchell Falls which 

was about 26km from the community.

As this was a once in a lifetime experience, 

we decided we would treat ourselves

 to a couple of helicopter flights.

The first one was a six minute flight up to Mitchell Falls.

The falls were fantastic to see from the air. 

It must be amazing in the wet season 

when the falls are really flowing.

We spent a couple of hours up there and walked around. 

We also went for a swim.

Then it was back onto the helicopter 

for a Plateau Coastal Experience.

It was supposed to be a 48 minute trip 

but we were up there for about an hour!

I was the co-pilot and got to sit up front. 

I even had a window for the floor.

This is Port Warrender. 

I'll tell you more about that in the next post. 

Above the same spot but looking back towards the Plateau.

 

We spotted the odd crocodile! 

There is quite a lot of water inland. 

 The landscape kept changing.

Well, that's it for this post. I have so many 

photos it's hard to pick which ones to share!

Kimberley Outback Adventure (Part 4)

Life at Kandiwal School.

The kids attend Kimberley School of the Air

 (KSOTA) and also do other off-line work.

Scotty working on his maths.

Winston sits in the other classroom 

as he is the only secondary school student.

There is assembly every couple of weeks with the KSOTA 

teachers and all the children who attend.

 They sing the national anthem. During the week, 

different pieces of the children's work is uploaded to the teachers. 

This work is shown so everyone can see what has been done just 

as if they were all sitting in the same classroom having show and tell.

Merit awards are given out. 

The award certificates are then posted to the kids.

It was Book Week when we were there 

so the teachers are all dressed up.

 Carmen-Lee waiting patiently for her kinder class.

The dogs all come to school too and just lie around outside.

The kids and I worked on a special project. 

But I'll tell you all about this in another post.

Scotty showing some favouritism!

Helping Kingsley work on a lesson.

Occasionally guests from APT Wilderness Camp 

come over to visit the school.

 Any excuse for a cricket match!

 One day we went along with the guests 

to a waterhole not too far away for a picnic.

More swimming.

 

Jazzlyn picked a little bouquet of wild flowers.

Noel was the lucky recipient!

We had a movie night!

The movie of choice was The Sea Monster.

At interval we made popcorn.

That's probably enough for this post.

Friday Night Sew-In

  

I couldn't make it Friday night so I joined the ladies in the 

Northern Hemisphere yesterday. Better late than never! 

I’m making some more Christmas Jewels like the one I made 

from last year’s Tilda Mystery Christmas box by Kitty Rose Cottage.

 

I got three more put together. 

There's still the braiding to go on but as I hot glue gun 

the braid on, I'll wait and do them all together. 

Thank you to Wendy from Sugarlane Designs for hosting us 

and to Dawn from Kitty Rose Cottage for sponsoring FNSI.

Kimberley Outback Adventure (Part 3)

  

We were invited by the mob to attend a

"Junba" (Corroboree) at King Edward River.

We all camped at Munurru Camp ground for a few days.

King Edward River.

 

The whole mob were there and we got to 

spend lots of time with the kids.

Here are Arnahm, Winston, Shianne, Scotty and Shanita.

Carmen-Lee took a liking to me and 

was my constant companion! 

She picked me some pretty little wild flowers.

 

 

There was lots of swimming.

 

How beautiful is this!

Dinner cooking in the camp oven while the sun was setting!

 

The night of the Junba. 

Time for the girls to join in.

 

 

This fabulous photo is by Matthew Birch of

Matthew Birch Media (check out his website).

I will tell you about Matt at another time.

 Shianne, Arnahm, Carmen-Lee, Winston, Scotty, Kingsley and Shanita.

The children of Kandiwal school.

 

This is Jeremy, one of the elders. 

He gave us a personal tour of the rock art which was wonderful. 

As you can imagine, I took lots of photos but here are just a few.

 

We got to try some Gubinge, an indigenous bush superfood. 

This is a really high source of vitamin C.

 

An echidna.

Jeremy playing the didgeridoo.

More adventures to come!