After leaving Murwangi our first stop was the Bula'Bula Art Centre at Ramingining to meet local artists and see them at work. Their principal media were bark, canvas and weaving pandanus. We liked their style a lot, and bought 2 bark works and a woven dillybag (of the kind slung backwards from the forehead.
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| Weaving a pandanus fishing trap |
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| Bark art works with "emerging artist" Joseph B Fisher who has only recently taken up this form of work |
Continuing our trek we crossed the Blyth River, which marks the boundary of Yolnu country.
We had travelled only a few metres up the opposite bank when a clunking disclosed that our truck had acquired a foreign object in the river. Inspection revealed it to be a substantial wedge shaped rock being a perfect fit for jamming between the near side rear wheels of the truck.
Much huffing and puffing among the driver and beefier members of the crew with a cheer squad standing by enabled eventual removal of the obstruction by chocking the inside wheel to enable the outer to free wheel, undoing its bolts and loosening without removing from the axle, a mere hour of labour x 3 men.
Last year our driver bogged his truck further along the track and it was stranded for 13 days while the lucky passengers were helicoptered to the next destination.
Late lunch at Barrmundi lodge, relaxation for the afternoon and, in the evening a main course of giant mud crab which I took to with bib, mallet, digging fork, and great gusto.
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