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Published: June 30th 2015
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After lots of favourable reports, we decided to visit Lombadina (a small aboriginal community just down the road) and bought some fresh bread there to make a picnic lunch in their park. It's a lovely place with lots of big trees and lawns that are watered and maintained.
We noticed that they had a workshop and so we decided to ask whether they could have a look at the exhaust on the cruiser. Of course, they said no problem and so we waited until the workshop returned from their lunchbreak and spoke to David about our exhaust problems. He had a look and said that he could fix it that afternoon so that was fine with us. Georgi went to the art and craft workshop and met Garry's mother who told Georgi about the history of the community and its missionary background. After that, we went back to the office and booked a mudcrabbing tour for the next day (with Garry).
An earlier start for us the next day as we had to be at Lombadina ready to go at 8am. On the way there, we had to rescue a tawny frogmouth that was sitting in the middle of
the track looking a bit hungover from a big night. Lenny picked him up and put him on a bank away from the traffic.
Garry took us in his Landcruiser to one of his secret mudcrabbing sites and we listened as he told us how best to catch mudcrabs. Soon we were deep in the mangrove forest with Garry and Georgi out in front and Lenny struggling behind going deeper and deeper in to the mud. Three crabs were enticed from their holes that were deemed large enough to be on the lunch menu. Eventually, we came out the other side of the mangroves and had a brief respite from the mud as we walked across the sand and along a tidal creek. Again Garry and Georgi plunged in to the mangrove forest, with Lenny choosing to check out holes along the creek. This time another mudcrab was enticed out of his hole and Garry decided we had enough crabs for lunch.
We took a short cut back to the Landcruiser (glad we had Garry navigating) and drove back to Lombadina where Garry collected some bread and a delicious salad to go with the crabs. After twenty minutes
Inside the Church
Showcasing use of local timbers cooking, the crabs were ready to eat and Garry provided hints on how to best extract the meat from the shells. A good chat was had as we enjoyed our lunch.
Soon it was time to go and we dropped in to the office to say goodbye to Renee (Garry's partner so it turned out). Renee told us all about the artistic talents that Garry has and showed us some of his works. Strangely, we had only recently admired another of Garry's works - a crocodile that now hangs in the Broome Visitor Information centre.
If you get the chance, do drop in and say hi to the lovely folks (or stay awhile) at Lombadina.
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