16 September 2016 – 187 706
Derby Sights
This morning I did a mountain of washing – pretty much all
the clothes we have with us, as we have not seen a power point, let alone a
washing machine, in two weeks. We went
to the Derby Jetty about 9am, just after low tide and watched the speed at
which the tide here rushes in, very impressive.
https://www.australiasnorthwest.com/explore/kimberley/derby/derby-jetty
From here we headed out of town to the Prison Tree – this is a boab tree of extremely large girth which is hollow inside and was used for temporarily holding prisoners – it would fit at least ten inside by the look of it.
https://www.australiasnorthwest.com/explore/kimberley/derby/boab-prison-tree Nearby there is also an extremely long cattle trough, capable of watering 500 head at a time. https://www.australiasnorthwest.com/explore/kimberley/derby/myalls-bore-and-water-trough
Mowanjum was our next stop, this is an aboriginal art group that paint the “Wandjina”, which is their creator spirit. https://www.mowanjumarts.com/ We also watched a short video on the centre which was quite interesting. We headed back to camp to spend some time cleaning, doing school work and generally getting more organised. In the afternoon, we headed out again to look at the high tide – the jetty that had looked miles above the water was now not much above the water at all. The low tide was 1.58m, and the high tide 10.87m, quite an impressive difference. We also went to the Library where we were able to borrow books to be posted back – we were able to get several for Hayden’s school work. The rest of the day was spent on catch up jobs etc.
https://www.australiasnorthwest.com/explore/kimberley/derby/derby-jetty
From here we headed out of town to the Prison Tree – this is a boab tree of extremely large girth which is hollow inside and was used for temporarily holding prisoners – it would fit at least ten inside by the look of it.
https://www.australiasnorthwest.com/explore/kimberley/derby/boab-prison-tree Nearby there is also an extremely long cattle trough, capable of watering 500 head at a time. https://www.australiasnorthwest.com/explore/kimberley/derby/myalls-bore-and-water-trough
Mowanjum was our next stop, this is an aboriginal art group that paint the “Wandjina”, which is their creator spirit. https://www.mowanjumarts.com/ We also watched a short video on the centre which was quite interesting. We headed back to camp to spend some time cleaning, doing school work and generally getting more organised. In the afternoon, we headed out again to look at the high tide – the jetty that had looked miles above the water was now not much above the water at all. The low tide was 1.58m, and the high tide 10.87m, quite an impressive difference. We also went to the Library where we were able to borrow books to be posted back – we were able to get several for Hayden’s school work. The rest of the day was spent on catch up jobs etc.
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