We drove up north of Broome towards Cape Leveque. We went in and visited Cape Leveque itself which was beautiful although you had to pay $10 just to walk on the beach there! Aidan and Cody had fun as they bumped into some kids they met while we were camping on the Gibb River Road and they all had a play in the ocean together.
We actually stayed a little north west of there between Cape Leveque and One Arm Point on a property called Goombading which is owned by a local aboriginal by the name of Unja (no idea how to spell is name) who has set up a camping area for tourist on his property. We spent two nights at his place which was right on the water and he was certainly a character to talk to. He told us all about how he was taught to hunt for food up there by his grandfather. They don’t eat goanna or wallaby or any other land based animals, they only hunted seafood. He also told us about some of the issues they have in the communities up there. Unja wanted to take us out fishing on our boat and show us where and how to catch the fish in the area but he had to work all week so was unable to take us. Unfortunately we were not allowed to use any of the boat ramps up in the area unless we had an aboriginal with us. So that ruled out fishing there. While we were there we went out exploring at low tide and watched some local aboriginals hunting fish with spears, which was cool to watch, although they didn’t seem to be very good shots! Lucky they don’t rely on their hunting skills for food anymore.
We then moved down to Middle Lagoon, just south of Cape Leveque and found a beautiful campsite overlooking the beach, where we watched stunning sunset over the water night after night. We had a great time snorkelling around the rocks checking out the coral and heaps of fish, we even found some clown fish. Aidan and Cody caught lots of squid while fishing off the beach, providing us with a few beautiful meals of calamari.
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| Cody, Shell and Jaime at Cape Leveque |
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| At Goombading, Cody walking out to see the spear fishing |
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| Local aboriginal fishing with spears |
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| Sunrise over the water and islands off Goombading |
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| View from our campsite at Middle Lagoon, Aidand and Cody are digging in the sand |
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| One of the sunsets at Middle Lagoon, Aidan and Cody are standing in the water fishing for squid |
We went out on the boat a couple of times and saw dolphins and lots of whales splashing about in the water, some of them were only a couple of hundred metres from us. We also saw so many sea turtles, but the cheeky things would always dive underwater as soon as Shell got the camera out! The fishing wasn’t great, as much as you would think it would be up here, the only people getting fish were heading 30kms off shore which we didn’t want to do, and they weren’t catching that many anyway. But Cody did hook up a couple of fish, we are not very sure what they were, but one was very colourful and they both tasted great. Jaime also hooked a big shark, which we got into the boat but then cut free.
After 4 nights at Middle Lagoon we headed down to Quondong Point which is a free camp area. We found a beautiful spot on a cliff face overlooking the beach and rocks. We enjoyed a couple of nights relaxing here enjoying the view and watching the whales play only a short distance off shore.
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| One of the many whales we saw |
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| Cody with one of the fish he caught |
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| Watching the sunset from our campsite at low tide at Quondong Point |
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| Our campsite at Quondong Point, looking north |
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| Looking south from our camspite at Quondong Point |
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| Cody out exploring at low tide at Quondong Point |
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