Ardi
After an overnighter in Derby and a sunset fish from the jetty we drove up Ardi (or the Dampier Peninsula) on a mostly appalling road with possibly the reddest and finest dust we have yet encountered. That lovely new camper trailer is looking decidedly well worn these days with all the streaks of red dust.
Up on the peninsula the land seems to be split up into lots of small lots, with 99-year leases given to Aboriginal people who were at the Beagle Bay Mission. So there are lots of smaller family groups, as well as larger Aboriginal communities, with lots of them getting into tourism in some way.
We shared our custom around up at Ardi, staying a couple of nights at one very small family sized community just near Middle Lagoon, and then a couple of nights at the Middle Lagoon camp, which was something like paradise. We had a secluded campsite up on the dunes behind the lagoon, with a long white beach in front of us, red cliffs to one side and a big reef on the other that was being exposed daily with the enormous tides.


We also drove up the peninsula a little, dropping into Lombadina community and spending a couple of hours on the idyllic white sandy beach, and then up to near the tip of Cape Leveque.



And Tim found a fishing buddy, Geoff (who is possibly even more obsessed with fishing than Tim) to go out on the boat with, letting Nic have a break for a couple of days. And they had a little success, with Geoff getting a big mackerel on the first fishing expedition that fed all of us, including his partner Trish, that night, with some to spare. They are a lovely couple, on an open-ended trip (having already worked in Darwin for 11 months) and are staying at Middle Lagoon for about six weeks to do a few hours work a day. This place is quite idyllic and we were a little envious, and wishing that we didn’t have to leave quite so soon.
Up on the peninsula the land seems to be split up into lots of small lots, with 99-year leases given to Aboriginal people who were at the Beagle Bay Mission. So there are lots of smaller family groups, as well as larger Aboriginal communities, with lots of them getting into tourism in some way.
We shared our custom around up at Ardi, staying a couple of nights at one very small family sized community just near Middle Lagoon, and then a couple of nights at the Middle Lagoon camp, which was something like paradise. We had a secluded campsite up on the dunes behind the lagoon, with a long white beach in front of us, red cliffs to one side and a big reef on the other that was being exposed daily with the enormous tides.


We also drove up the peninsula a little, dropping into Lombadina community and spending a couple of hours on the idyllic white sandy beach, and then up to near the tip of Cape Leveque.



And Tim found a fishing buddy, Geoff (who is possibly even more obsessed with fishing than Tim) to go out on the boat with, letting Nic have a break for a couple of days. And they had a little success, with Geoff getting a big mackerel on the first fishing expedition that fed all of us, including his partner Trish, that night, with some to spare. They are a lovely couple, on an open-ended trip (having already worked in Darwin for 11 months) and are staying at Middle Lagoon for about six weeks to do a few hours work a day. This place is quite idyllic and we were a little envious, and wishing that we didn’t have to leave quite so soon.
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