Day 148

24 June 2013

This morning I had to pick Joel up from his work once his flight came in. He is sick, sick, sick so we spent most of the day resting.

Before he headed to the mines Joel ordered some lures and fishing equipment which got delivered while he was away so he was very excited to check that out. It is weird how exciting it is to receive mail when you haven't had any for 6 months! Like Christmas! Haha. Joel had also ordered a rod but it wasn't in stock so we spent the morning in the tackle shop in derby looking for a rod to go with his new reel.

We have decided to head off tomorrow and that means we need to sort some stuff out! We can't take the van to Cape Leveque so have decided it is easier to leave it in derby as we will have to come back this way to go into the kimberleys anyway so makes sense. We had bought a tent with us in anticipation of this so we just had to go through all the stuff in the car and van and decide what we really needed to take and what we could do without! Without the boat on the roof racks it gave us a lot more space to chuck the tent and camp chairs etc up there which I am not sure how we would have fit everything in if that boat was still up there!?

We got all our meat vacuum sealed at the local butcher and it was really reasonably priced and good looking meat so would def recommend heading here if you need to stock up before heading into the kimberleys.

Packed up and ready to head off early in the morning, we grabbed some fish and chips for dinner (as everything was packed!) probably would not recommend the derby fish and chip shop in town, Joel got barramundi and not only was it $14 for a piece it was also soggy and not real nice, which is disappointing since we are in barramundi country! Oh well don't know these things till you try!

Early to bed and excited about exploring again!

Carly & Joel

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