Derby



The Cattle at Myall's Bore

We headed off this morning to see the sights of Derby. There isn't many of them so today was very cruisey. We didn't get much past Myall's Bore and Cattle Trough south of town. The cattle trough is 120 metres long and the kids spent a good hour creating boats from rubbish laying about the place and having boat races. The breeze helped to push their boats along and they had an absolute blast cheering their boats on as they walked along side them. A quick stop at the Prison Boab Tree and it was back to the cattle trough for some more rubbish boat racing. We stopped in at the information centre to find out about the Kalumburu Road. It was open and the ladies advised us against going up there. The guy at the camping store told us some interesting stories about recent travels on the Kalumburu Road so we rang Kalumburu & McGowans Island directly and were informed that the road was rough but do-able with a trailer. We wandered into Woolworths to get stocked up for the next two to three weeks, knowing that supplies would be difficult to come by and even if we could get them, they would be super expensive. Down to the jetty again for the afternoon and a feed of calamari from the little take away/restaurant there.

Rubbish boat races in the cattle trough

Prison Boab Tree - Derby

Boab Nuts

Derby Jetty

Derby Jetty