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Off to Broome for the April School holidays This is the turnoff to Balgo from the Tanami Track.  From here it is 30km to Balgo, you couldn't miss this turnoff sign!!! 600 km on dirt/gravel/rock roads and the tyre punctured on the bitumen!!! When we took the car back to Halls Creek to get the puncture fixed we saw another tyre that had a screw in it.  So luckily we were able to get both tyres fixed and then it was on our way 43 degrees and it felt like it! Along the Tanami Track there is a turn off to the Wolfe Creek Crater.  It was made 300,000 years ago and it is the second biggest crater in the world. I was pleased that I hadn't seen the film Wolfe Creek when we visited this area!! From Halls Creek we travelled up Duncan's Rd which was another very bumpy gravel road. We stopped at Palm Springs which was an oasis in a very hot desert! Further along Duncan's Rd was Sawpit Gorge.  Another amazing Kimberley gorge

I picked Jeff up from Halls Creek on Saturday. He was spending a week in the community. He came into the classroom every day to help.  On our last day we had a carnival at school. There was face painting, biscuits 🍪, slip and slide and much more.  The children lined up to throw water bombs at us. Jed is my classroom assistant and he copped the brunt of the ‘bombs’ One of my boys winding up with his missile!!                                   Jeff was welcomed to the community at Church. The church elders were giving him a blessing.  I was lucky to have Jeff mow my grass. No slithering friends were encountered!!! TRIP TO COUNTRY  Cathy,  a community elder told us the Dream time story of the Rough tailed Lizard and the Echidna.  Here I am making Puff paint. The kids enjoyed using this.  At lunchtime (Mungarri) the children are given a sandwich 🥪  Holding this little fellow was the only way to stop h

Little ‘Hoppy’that surprises me daily with his wanderings in my bath room    This little fellow greeted me in my classroom store room this week. This long tailed visitor usually lives in my air conditioner unit outside. It is so dry that he climbed into the bucket under my tap. He couldn’t get out and a camp dog 🐕 was trying to eat him. I rescued him to fight another day. This lizard 🦎 was on my fly wire.  It might be Eugene, who often visits my lounge room  This big frog 🐸 was on my verandah. He was very fat!! This is Milo, a camp dog 🐶 that lives next door.  The cattle from Ruby Plains (Kidman Cattle Staion) on the Tanami Rd.  This goanna was one of 10 I saw on my trip toHalls Creek. The locals love these poor guys!! We went on a bush trip to the rock art and water holes. The kids found some crabs 🦀 I was surprised to see crabs!!  This one was dead but the kids saw them in the water holes.  These Easter B