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Our summary of the last 2 months:

Favourite place:

Jess - Broome

Tilly - Cable Becah and El Questro Station

Bill- Lake Argyle and Mundrabilla Station

Emmy - Darwin, Broome and 80 mile beach

Adelaide - 80 Mile Beach, Broome, Darwin

Danny - Lake Argyle

Caro - Manning Gorge

Worst place:

Jess - Windham

Tilly - FitzroyCrossing

Bill -  the side of the Road, near Port Augusta

Emmy - Manning Gorge and Broome Markets

Adelaide - everything besides the infinity pool and the jumping pillow

Danny - Zebra Rock

Caro - Adcock Gorge

Favourite thing:

Jess - Riding camels at Ayers Rock

Tilly - looking at pearls

Bill - riding around Mundbarilla Station on Bens motorbike, and catching my first fish at Bells Gorge.

Emmy - surfing at cable beach, and the horse races in Broome

Adelaide - doing the splits on the lake Argyle dance floor and getting a free cd.

Danny - all of it, especially Donk not breaking down.

Caro - happy kids ..... And the crab races in Broome

Worst thing:

Jess - driving

Tilly - the lady at the Broome Markets

Bill - when I accidentally squirted the boy when I turned on the water park at Darwin

Emmy - driving

Adelaide - "when Bill drops his guts in the car" ( Ads has been spending too much time with Danny)

Danny - Adelaide not giving the foot rub she owes

Caro - loosing Emmy at Manning Gorge

Something you have learnt:

Jess - an anenome is an animal

Tilly - that whale sharks are the biggest fish in the world

Bill- some Pelicans can hold 13 litres of water in their mouth

Emmy - how pearls are made

Adelaide - if Nemo goes under the anenome, the anenome can sting Nemo

Danny - green tree snakes are harmless........apparently

Caro - if you have more liquid in the " unflushed" section, compared to the " flushed " section, there is a high chance that your toilet will tip over while you are travelling.

Something else you have learnt:

Jess - you have one in one hundred thousand chance of finding a natural pearl

Tilly - the reason Cable beach is called Cable Beach is because of the underwater cable that connects Australia to the rest of the world

Bill - Eels can dig a burrow with their tail

Emmy - what noise a camel makes when he stands up and how they stand up

Adelaide - that "camamels" have to put the heaviest person on the back and the lightest person on the front.

Danny - my family are growing up and people on the road and on properties seem to share the same opinions as me on all subjects.

Caro - there are 10 books in every 20,000 kms  ( That's Danny's suggestion on my behalf) ... and the nucleus of the pearl is implanted in the gonad of the male oyster, the oyster then secretes a fluid that forms the pearl, so what exactly are pearls are actually made of????.....   I didn't ask any more questions!!

Favourite lookout:

Jess - Joffre's lookout at Karajini

Tilly - circular gorge, Karajini

Bill - head of the bight

Emmy - Freemantle Ferris wheel, and Ayers Rock viewing platform, junction lookout at Karijini

Adelaide - Freemantle Ferris Wheel

Danny - hammersely lookout , Karajini.

Caro - lookout no 4 on the great Australian Bight

Favourite gorge:

Jess - Manning Gorge, Kimberley and Tunnel creek, Kimberley

Tilly - Bells Gorge, Kimberley 

Bill - hammersely gorge, Karajini and Windjana gorge, Kimberley

Emmy - the Olga's- favourite walk - valley of the winds

Adelaide - Waeno Gorge - Karajini

Danny - Manning and Emma ( el Questro)

Caro - Handcock Gorge, Karajini and Manning Gorge , Kimberley, and Kings Canyon and Palm Valley, West McDonald Ranges.

Favourite souvenir:

Jess - dolphin stuffed toy from Monkey Mia

Tilly - opal pearl from Denham

Bill - yellow signs and number plates from everywhere

Emmy - pearl luck dips and jewellery from Broome

Adelaide - Viviane ( her toy mermaid from Denham ) and earmuffs from Nullabour roadhouse

Danny - barramundi contracting shirt form Bug and Jen

Caro - the pearl we opened and Danny subtly, but assertively bought.

Favourite thing to do in the car:

Jess - chew chewy 

Tilly - read

Bill - looking out the window

Emmy - sleeping and dreaming about Roseville

Adelaide - sleeping

Danny - drive smoothly so my wife doesn't loose where she is up to in her book

Caro - read

Favourite Animal from this trip ( the kids wanted this category!! )

Jess - turtle

Tilly - starfish

Bill - water buffalo and Brahmans

Emmy - brumby's and Dolphins and whales

Adelaide - kangaroo

Danny - camel

Caro - that olive Python on the Gibb river rod - not my favourite, but one of the most different - it was huge and slow.

First thing you will do when we get home:

Jess - rearrange my bedroom wall

Tilly - sprint to my room and sleep in my bed

Bill - put my souvenirs on my wall and ride Little

Emmy - pat Chuck and feed him and say hi to all my friends, ride my ripstick and hug my bedroom and my house.

Danny - check the stock, then plan a trip to find Lasseters lost reef

Caro - shower

Favourite photo:

Jess- at Cable Beach , Broome.

 

Tilly -  finishing the longest straight stretch on the Nullabour

 

Dad getting creative on 80 Mile Beach

 

Bill - with Ben at Mundrabilla Station

 

Catching his second fish at Bell Gorge, King Leopold ranges, Kimberley.

 

Emmy -  surfing at Cable Beach

 

With the Blanchards at Broome

 Adelaide - just crossed the Pentecost River ( don't think she understood the concept of favourite photo )

 

 with Chelsea at her Dads work in Broome.

 

Danny - the Pinnacles

 

Caro - camping at Manning Gorge

 

Bells Gorge.