Derby

Tuesday 11th
One thing I had forgotten to say was that our neighbours in the caravan park gave us some fish someone had caught, Giant Trevally, and it was amazing to eat. Huge and tasted like butter fish. We had that with the chips Josiah and I got from the shop.
We packed up and left Broome, heading for Derby. A lot of cattle regularly on the sides of the roads but they just aren't bothered by the traffic which is great.

This is our lunch stop just on the side of the road approx 130 km from Broome. We had quite a few cattle nearby as we could here them but none came into view.

It didn't take long to get to Derby and we stopped at the playground which had 3 groups of Aboriginals sitting there. We soon had a young guy come over who was drunk showing us his art work on a big boab seed pod. It really was amazing. Even in his state he could sit there and do this fine carving into this pod which was about the size of 2 tennis balls. They wanted us to buy it and we talked with them for a while as a girl came over too and she was physically not good, young, so we bought it and every time we see it we are going to pray for these people that have no hope. I can't imagine their life of nothing to live for except alcohol. It has such a hold on them that they are dead! Such talent but for nothing. And what has happened to that girl that she has such injuries, arr makes me so angry, so we are praying for someone,  in Derby that has a heart for the people that can reach them and start the change from inside.

Just out of Derby is the Boab prison tree which has a sad story again. They kept the Aborigines in this tree until they needed them for work or for sentencing for a crime the white people thought they commited. They were treated like animals. Awful. We then headed out onto the Gibb River Road. The road that I really wanted to do, all the way through, but we were going to have to take 1 day at a time.

Our camp on the side of the road with clothes out drying and Kimberly relaxing inside.