Middle Lagoon

Bush mechanic here with wild tales of lying under the car or camper in bull dust, sand, camel dung or any other unsavoury surface to carry out a wee repair job. Having spent 4 nights in Broome, we now have a working toilet again after spending 6 hrs on and off stripping down the pipes looking for "stuff" it turns out its was broken and required a part from Brisbane. Replacement tyres for the odd shredded one from a mining road. A wee service to see use through The Kimberleys and loads of other stuff that you must be dying to hear about, but you can wait.
Once back to 100% we headed up Cape Leveque 200kms on mainly deepish sand to Middle Lagoon for a few nights R&R. The whole Cape is Aboriginal reserve and a good spot to visit as it certainly isn't busy due to the condition of the access road.
Our Magellan gps has been a good buy when we are off road as you can constantly find out where you are compared to where you think you are. Excellent for places like Cape Leveque.
We camped on the beach with about another 15 people within ¼ mile so privacy again no problem.
We had the kayaks out in the waves and off to a beach on the other side of the lagoon. On the way we would see turtles and distant dolphins. The waves at times were 8' which was good fun riding over them and plunging down the back. I was on my own one day when I was joined by five dolphins including a calf about 2' long. I stayed with them for about 3-4 mins keeping around 10' away which was superb to view them so closely while swimming.
Jen gave the tink pupils an aboriginal art class one day which they both enjoyed as they had all day to do the painting. They used dot painting on canvas having been in a couple of galleries in Broome to get the idea. They both did very well and the new masters have since been mailed to Scotland for safe keeping.
We met up with some locals from Broome and had a BBQ with them all. The following morning they took us mud crabbing up a creek when the tide was low. These crabs are huge, at least a 12” dinner plate across, not to be trifled with. The mission failed much to the disappointment of J&K.
On the way in to ML we saw a sign offering camel rides which sounded fairly original out there. We booked for 8am and headed out to find that it was us only and the guy that owned the camels. They also had baby camels just 6 weeks old which J&K were allowed in to see. The guide Lenni was hugely informative about nature and he gave us a good 2 hrs in the bush then on the beach. His house is on the beach 7.5kms of bay and not another house to be seen from his. The gave us a tour of their vege garden and cut some aloe vera which we have kept in the fridge for cuts, bites sun burn etc.. It takes these people 5-6 hour round trip to hit town for supplies, you don't want to forget your messages list here.
We visited Beagle Bay on the way down the track as we had seen the film about the nuns the week before in Broome. It was beyond comprehension being there and imagining Scots and Irish nuns in the 20-30's arriving into nothing, no town and establishing themselves. Naturally they would have dumped their wimples and bat capes and hopped straight into bikinis to keep the heat at bay.
Back on the blacktop hit Broome, then head for Derby and the infamous Gibb River road, 660kms of the worst corrugated surface.