played ‘dodge the wallaby’ for the
next few hours. Breakfast was at
Croydon, and at Georgetown we
took time out to visit an impressive
mineral display. As we were leav-
ing we watched a large Sand
Monitor crossing the main street.
The next stop was to visit Peter
Krauss, who kindly provided food
and refreshments, and then on to
Cairns to the apartment Euan had
booked for the night. Later we
were again joined by Joe, who had
flown in on a charter flight, and
thanks to his evil influence we only
got to bed at about 1.00 a.m. and I
was lucky to wake in time for my
flight to Sydney. It was a most
memorable trip and one I will
carried paintings of different totem Then the feast began. Everyone
always look back on with fond
animals, and two large log fires
ate their fill and there was plenty
memories. Murrandoo had told us
were set alight as the sun was
left over - we finished with a very
before we left that he would like to
going down. Some of the more
colourful commemorative cake
invite us to the next ranger forum,
energetic guys moved out a bit
created by a local lady. It was in
possibly in Darwin, so who knows
and played a vigorous game of
every way a fitting finale to a great what the future holds?
football until start of the dancing
forum.
was announced. The Mornington
Island Dancers were terrific; the
For us it was then back to the
Above left: Nev shakes a leg with
meaning of each dance was
barracks to bag the snakes up and
some locals!
explained by the leader and the
pack for the return drive to Cairns.
Image by Joe Sambono.
atmosphere was spellbinding.
We got away at 4:00am and