McLaw on Tour

McLaw family of Dunedin leave behind dog and house, take children away from computers and television and seek warmth, music and adventure in Central America.

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Around Broome, WA

Susie, Ciaran and Blair out kayaking around the coast in the weekend. Romany preferred to play with one of the next door neighbours girls. Visiting blowholes, watching local birds and looking for sea turtles (avoided us well). A very pleasant afternoon.
On one of Susie's afternoons off we all went along to the local crocodile park where they keep rogue salt water crocs from the wild and also breed some themselves. They have some monster crocs up to 5m long and 1000kg in weight. There is really nothing friendly looking about these guys who lunge at anything thrown into their pools and drag it under to drown it.
You do get to hold the little fellas (surprisingly cool to touch) but even these ones have their mouths tied shut while you do so. And then afterwards we went down to the beach and found a blue ringed octopus in a rock pool; fully grown at 10cm, you will die in under 30 minutes if it stings you. Such friendly hospitable waters in Australia.