Arnhem Land adventure

Today we flew to Nhulunbuy (Gove) to get acquaintance with the far north, courtesy Outback Spirit. The Cairns-Gove sector was with a carrier new to us, as was the plane type (Embraer 170) . We liked the airline style and the plane and thought it significantly superior to comparable Qantas services, notably in lunch and two airline magazines which were world best standard in informational presentation. One magazine was wholly dedicated to articles on artisan workmanship with highest quality card paper and few ads,

The Gove airport is designed to look like a fish in profile. Below is the disembarking view.

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After settling in to our motel we took a stroll to the beach, which looked tempting with gentle surf. Alas the beach is reserved for the use of crocodiles, box jelly fish and it is said the occasional feral buffalo.

The shell life included plentiful beautiful cowry shells an other flotsam and jetsam , some less salubrious 

I saw the tallest frangipanni of my experience.

And in our motel the strangest natural parti-coloured palm trunk 

Good wild barramundi for dinner and getting acquainted with some our 19 travel companions led to an early night.

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