Cape Leveque

Please do not adjust your sets.

I said Lada.

The Russian Hummer

He paid $450 for it a few weeks ago and apparently it runs on love unlike the Falcon which runs on unleaded which you can't get up the peninsula at the weekend. In fact, you're hard pushed to get anything up the peninsula, alcohol included so we stocked up on booze and a couple of jerry cans of fuel and began the trek.

On The Road

The Boys; Jon-o And Darragh

The best way to do an unsealed road is with two blokes that don't mind ragging it over the corrugations, it was an awesome ride up although most of my carefully decanted goon ended up on the ceiling of the car, over the back of the head rest in front and all over me. Ah well, everything I own smells of goon anyway, its hard to hold a glass (ok, dirty beer bottle picked up off the floor) straight after a few rounds.

We were basically only going to visit Neil and Becky in their serene, calm, idyllic environment at the Kooljaman Resort, an Aboriginal owned holiday village right at the top of the peninsula at Cape Leveque.

Neil, Jon-o, Darragh, Becky And Me

Ah well, someone had to upset the balance eventually. Oh come on, we didn't know they'd get arsey for transporting one of their staff down to the beach on the bonnet of the Russian Hummer in full resort uniform.

We hadn't really made plans, all we knew was that we were going to head to a salt lake for the night then have breakfast on the beach at One Arm Point, a nearby Aboriginal settlement. Neil decided not to join us, something about preferring to sleep in a nice, cosy bed as opposed to a Lada in the freezing cold and having a perfectly good kitchen to cook breakfast in in the morning.

An Ex-Turtle At One Arm Point

Brekky With Our New Mate, Lumpy The Dog

Meh, some people have no sense of adventure.

It was fun anyways and awesome to see them again. And and and! I even got to drive some of the way back down! I've never driven a 4WD before, I should never be allowed to own one. I'm already convinced the Falcon can go places it can't.

Put me in a 4x4 and I can go anywhere!

written by  Koala Bear on July 15, 2007 from Dampier Peninsula, Australia
from the travel blog: Sod Off Great Big Mission Round Oz
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