We woke to the sound of midgies flapping their wings and it
was stinking hot without a breath of wind. There is not a lot to do here in the
Mitchell River except for fishing.
It’s dangerous to take the boat further upstream without
surveying it first at low tide in the dinghy due to all the rocks and sand bars
and you can’t get anywhere near the falls.
I was thinking of taking the dinghy up to Surveyors Creek for
a look to see if there was any water flowing, but to be honest, we were both a
bit sick and tired of mud and midgies so we decided to pull the pick and head
for the Osborne Islands that sounded a lot more interesting.
After breakfast we up anchored and headed for the Osborne
Islands. We rounded Pickering Point and cruised past Port Warrender where I had
driven into and spent a week years before and headed towards the iconic Steep
Head Island.
It wasn’t far to the southern Osborne Islands and I had to
negotiate a pearl farm on the approach and then I headed up near Kidney Island
where I dropped the pick so I could go and take a look in the dinghy at the
biggest boab tree in the Kimberly.
About a mile up the channel I spotted the tree and went
ashore to go and check it out. It was big, but it was a gnarly old bugger and
not a very impressive looking specimen. I wonder how many hundreds or thousands
of years old it is? I saw a boab growing in the sand on a beach right next to
the cliff at the high tide mark also.
I got back into the dinghy without seeing any croc's and
decided to have a bit of a troll back to Sirocco. I caught a few massive GT’s,
a lazy Jack and a massive cod. Several other fish either got off or snapped my
line. I released all the fish as we still had plenty of fish in the fridge, but
it was hard to say goodbye to that lovely big cod.
We negotiated more peal leases and headed for Cyclone Bay
where we dropped the pick in the late afternoon and I went for another troll
just on dark without any success.
It was another hot breathless night with lots of midgies to
keep us company.
Track Sirocco’s
progress
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