Film Night

Jack here: In Broome there is a outdoor cinema and we saw three films there: Ten Canoes; Sisters, Pearls and Mission Girls and Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Mans Chest. The Sun Cinema is the oldest outdoor cinema still in use. The first film played there was in 1930. Half of it is inside and half of the seating is outside and you sit in deckchairs. In Broome it gets dark at 6:30 and the first film is at 6:45 and half way a jet flew over at about 100 feet to land at the airport - crazy! You can buy Mexican food and eat while watching the film along with sweets and drinks. It was really exciting sitting outside and watching a film and watching lizards walk up the screen! The first film we saw was Ten Conoes and it was about Aborigines in their natural habitat and about beliefs of the ancestors. The other film we saw was Sisters, Pearls and Mission Girls and was about Nuns from St. John of God setting up a mission in Beagle Bay and educating Aborigines and looking after them.
Tomorrow we're heading further up the cape to camp on trhe beach and go kayaking and snorkling.
The janitor's review. The pics that are here are from open mine at Tom Price in The Karijini and clearly show the scale of mining in WA. These dumpers take 317 tons, use 20ltrs of fuel every km, have tyres that are 4m in dia. that cost £10,000 a go and you can pick one up for around £1.5m. Girls, plenty opportunity here for driving these Tonkas, pay starts at 30k(£) and you will lose probably a stone a week in sweat alone. The other pic is us at a duel stop(roadhouse) on The Great Northern Highway linking Perth to Darwin 4200kms. The road train is massive at 52m, 3 artics by UK standards.Jack is mildly dwarfed here. We haven't had to overtake one yet but I'm sure we will have to at some point. I think we will require a scale on the side of it to get an indication if you are getting close to the front before you pile into one coming the opposite direction.