We continued westwards through the Kimberley. We stopped off at Halls Creek to look at the Yarliyil Art Centre. There are many Aboriginal Art Centres as we travel around and we often stop off for a look.
We camped at Ngumpan Cliffs about 100km east of Fitzroy Crossing before heading to the west coast. We took photos of the lovely sunset and Robert got up to take some sunrise photos too.
We're well into Western Australia now and have hit the west coast at Derby (pronounced Dirby, not Darby). As we've driven through the Kimberley we've seen plenty of boab trees with their fat, bottle shaped trunks. These trees start off with brown bark which turns grey as they age. The bark is smooth and dense and looks like grey stone The trees certainly have character and many of them look very wise. There are plenty of them in Derby with their large woody nuts which artists harvest and decorate with pokerwork. The Prison Tree was used to house aboriginal prisoners en route to Broome. These days the sign says snakes live inside the trunk.
A couple of days in this northern coastal town has been very restful. Derby has the largest tides in Australia at around 11m, and the 8th largest in the world.
We've been to the jetty at high and low tide to get a feel for this phenomenon.
Today we visited the nearby Mowanjum Art and Cultural Centre where we watched a short DVD about the Wandjina figures and saw many lovely paintings. Tomorrow we're off to Broome.
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