We got up early and did a quick, pack up – we were keen to
get out of the gravel pit and on the road as soon as possible, just in case
someone happened on us. On the way out we had to stop and take pictures of the enormous termite mounds.
We got a couple of km down the road when we saw a ute
stopped on a side road with a guy standing in front of it. We slowed down to
see if everything was OK, he walked over and started chatting to us. Turns out
he is from Tasmania and comes up once a year to bring American Tourists in to
shoot Buffalo. He asked where we stayed the night and after explaining that we
stayed in a gravel pit as we have a rule to always be out of sight, he told us
he has the same rule and never travels without a gun. At that point I was
relieved he seemed to be friendly – makes you wonder though.
The rest of the trip was pretty unremarkable, and we arrived
in Nhulunbuy at around 12. After checking into our hotel we went to look for
the tyre shop to see if they could repair our tyre. The guy was still there but
he had closed up, so we had to wait until Monday. We headed into town to get a
few things from Woollies and have a general look around. It was a typical
mining town, with nothing much there. We went back to the hotel room and spent
the rest of the afternoon relaxing.
The manager of the motel suggested we go down to the beach
and watch the sunset. He suggested a place called Crocodile creek. Before
leaving we asked about the best place to buy fish and chips. Now you would
think that being on the gulf there would be an abundance of places selling
fish. Not so! We went to a take away he suggested and ended up with greasy deep
fried fish and chips – very disappointing.
With dinner in hand we headed for the beach, he was right it
was very secluded with no-one else there, we soon realised that it was because
it was close to the refinery and the yellow smoke was blowing right across it.
We gave that up as a bad idea and decided to find a better beach. We drove
closer to town and the found the popular beaches – there were loads of people
watching the sunset and having BBQ’s. As the sun went down we looked down the
beach and there were loads of little fires all along it.
The rest of the evening was spent relaxing in our room.
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