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| Snowcones at Mindil Beach Market, yum. |
Darwin was awesome I loved the free waterpark with the 3 waterslides, Litchfield was good but nothing compared to Kakadu. Over the border to Kununurra and now Broome!
Free Waterpark
“WOW” I said as we got out of the car. I was looking at the best free water park I have been too. It had a water playground and 3 huge slides. The pool was massive and so much fun to play in. After a quick swim in the pool we ran over to the waterslides. The yellow one was really fast but hurt my back, the blue slide was really slow and lame so I didn’t go on that on again, the red slide was the best one there. You needed a donut and not to be scared of the dark because it was that dark that I couldn’t see Taj who was sitting in front of me! The water playground was closed but we didn’t really care.
Darwin Museum
This was the museum like no other. You weren't allowed cameras but that didn’t matter because they would bring the place no justice. We headed up to Sweetheart first. She was a massive, over 5m croc that used to tip over little boats. She never ate anyone and probably didn’t want to the only thing was she probably had friends swimming around who did want to eat the porr fishermen.
The stuff on Cyclone Tracy was really interesting and I think that we are lucky to now have the technology that we need to all stay safe. We get into the cyclone Tracy room and I was really exicited! I had wanted to do this ever since I first heard of it. It was really scary actually. I thought that the room was about to cave in. There was a lot of cracking sounds and the sort of sound that you will here when an evil teacher scrapes her long fingers along the black board.
We have failed to catch a Barramundi so far. Were about to give up but this person put us onto a lake where you will defiantly catch a barramundi! We all caught fish but i'm only going to tell you about mine.
When my turn came I was exicited. This Barra was pulling me under everything it could and when I finally got it in it was 70cms beating dads and Taj’s 60cm Barra’s and Ryley 25 and 64cm Barra’s. Mum just beat me with a 72cm Barra.
Noonamah Tavern Rodeo
When we arrived at the rodeo there were already horses out in the ring warming up. It wasn’t only going to be the bulls but the horses and motorbikes too.
The motorbikes went first with their freestyle tricks and that was really cool. The bucking Broncos were next and I hated that. They tied a rope around their flanks and then pulled it so tight that I could see the scratch marks from up in the stands.
In the 18 and over I can’t remember who won it but the bulls were crazy. They would bash people into fences and smash them into walls when they got of or fell off. There were 3 people that had to go to hospital, that’s not a job I would want to get.
Rock Salt the mean bad bull. He was the worst of them all. He was the bull that no one wanted to mess with and when he got out into the ring the rider was off. He has a 99% buck off rate and I’m telling you I wouldn’t want to be messing with him!
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| Getting tickled by a dragon |
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| Yum, rat for lunch |
We were told to go to a place called Crocasaurus and I really liked it. We started off the day by watching an Olive Python eating a rat and it was disgusting! There was blood all over that table at the end and watching it was just yuck!
We got to then go and see all the crocs and there were some huge ones. I liked watching them being fed because they would launch themselves into the air and then grab their lunch.
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| Wrestling a dangerous python |
Getting to hold a baby croc was pretty cool it weighed a lot though and we had to wait for a really long time. The lady was so rude she made us wait for a long time. She was talking for ages about how beautiful the pictures were even though they didn’t want to buy. I was going to just walk out of the door but it was all Ry wanted to do.
Croc feeding was next but this was only the little ones. We got to feed them by a fishing rod and they would jump out of the water and take speckies on each other it was really funny! That was my favourite thing.
The last thing was the turtle feeding and that was really cool. Because there weren’t many people there we got to feed all of the turtles. My favourite was the pig nose turtle because it had a really little pig nose.
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| Look you can see the croc swimming towards me just near my sholder. Very cool. |
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| 2nd biggest croc in captivity |
Litchfield
When we arrived at our caravan park in Litchfield we looked at our pool and it was a blue water tank cut in half. I can’t believe that they can actually call that a pool.
We went looking for water holes and when we got to our first water hole the people that had just came back from the walk and said that you can't swim in the water because it looked like a good place for crocs.
My favourite was the last one we went to it was a crystal clear pool with a lot of little fish to chase. There were 3 pools. Taj and Mum played in the little one at the top of the little waterfall and Dad, Ry and I played in the 2 pools at the bottom. Ry and I chased the fish all into a corner and then we tried to catch them but that didn’t work.
Kununurra
After a long drive we settled just over the border at a rough place called Kununurra. It had hobos everywhere and most of them looked dead. It was hard to find a good restaurant. We ended up at a nice place just out of town. It had nice food but I was sick so everything tasted horrible, even ice cream. We were at a caravan park just out of town but I still didn’t want to sleep in my tent because I didn’t like the looks of hobos.
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| Don't look now, we're riding a camel. |
I was happy to be in Broome. It was a beautiful place and the fishing was awesome.
On our first night we went riding on camels along a nudey beach and I didn’t look down because all I was hearing was Ry saying “I could have parked my bike in that guys butt” and “That guy has a but the size of the moon”. My camel was called Amos and when the ride was over and he was told to go down he just did a straight drop!
The fishing was so good. We caught 25 fish! My favourite fish caught was dads spotted Barra. I caught 6 fish. I rock Cod, 3 Moses sea perch and 2 emperors, 1 sweet lip and 1 spangled. When we were fishing we caught 2 shovel nose sharks and they ended up snapping us off and we saw one hammerhead. I didn’t want to swim after that!
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| My Sweet Lip Emperor |
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| My RockCod |
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| Just an ordinary peacock. |
Port Smith
A town so small that it didn’t show up on the GPS. It was a town that was a caravan park. That was all. At the caravan park it had petrol and a milk bar. Fishing was all this town was about.
We got to a place where you catch cod after cod. All the cod were only little but dad got 2 huge fish that snapped him off. At the end I had one last cast and I got the best fighting thing of the day. It was a seagull!! I had to pull the rod down and wind in. When I got it onto the beach dad had to unhook it. When he did the seagull pecked him and then flew off.
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| Best Dog in Dampier. |
Dampier, home of one of my favourite dogs, Red Dog. We got into Dampier when it was nearly dark and found Red Dog's statue. If you haven’t seen the movie I recommend you do, but if you love dogs as much as me you might want to bring a box of tissues. We stopped for a pub meal not realizing that this was the pub that Red Dog died in. Dampier hasn’t changed much you can see where everything was. You could see where the red dog saved the man from being eaten by a shark and at the pub you can even see the old bus. The town was all red dogs. The should probably change the town’s name to Red dog town!
Now off to Exmouth for snorkelling. Talk to you soon Taz
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| One of many dangerous river crossings. |
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