The next weekend -attempts at fishing- a croc encounter- and a tour to the 'other side.

NJC on call on Saturday from 0800-2000, and actually worked for about 9 of those hours.  Several of the tasks were related to follow-up for ongoing daily medication, a number of children with temperatures, all of which took time.  

Whilst this is happening Alex, one of the the nurses who has been here for a few months, took ABC fishing.     Another exercise in donating tackle and bait to Neptune.  But the weather was mostly great and the scenery was wonderful.   First went to the beach near the settlement of Numuwumunhana, about four kms south of Galliwin'ku.  For this time of year the water was exceptionally clear, and very calm, with little or no wind.  There were threatening thunder clouds in the distance.  

But visibility was still very good.  This meant that sharks, stingers and crocs would see us from a long way off

Alex-The whole beach to ourselves.

Anyway the wind got up and it rained and rained, and rained some more, but as in the tropics the rain was big heavy and warm, so getting wet was just a matter of drying off again...on the way back to the vehicle we were surprised to find a croc hiding in the driftwood, it wasn't a very big one, but looking at it we decided that there was probably another one somewhere close.

Then went to the barge landing, once again got quite a few nibbles, and the fish were jumping, but none attached themselves to our hooks.

Thanks to the fine education I received from one of the finest diving buddies of several decades ago, one of the discoveries we made on the beach,  I could identify.  Thanks Bruce.  For the want of lots of unnecessary research the author is declaring this to be a new species. (Don't think that taxonomy would even make it to Wikipedia)It was wallowing in a mud flat rockpool, it was about the size of my hand and amazing colours.

Fisher nudibranch .

Sunday, once again , with the permission of the manager, we borrowed the Troopy.  With the troopy and one of the Doctor's HiLux' , all up Dr 'LT,'  nurse  Nathalie, Amy, and Trina, AHW Sarah, Sarah's grandmother Elaine, and 9 yo nephew Ezekiel, took a picnic and headed north.   The road had dried out quite a bit from the previous weekend, but there were still some substantial lakes on the road.

Once again went to the women's beach camp, where some mysteries were unravelled. We had previously seen several Israeli flags being flown from some homes in Galliwin'ku.  Didn't get around to finding out the why.

Elaine showed us and asked us to sign the visitors book at the women's camp.  Inside the front cover the connection to Israel was explained. 

Ezekiel spent all of his time raiding a series of bushes where he showed us that the little black berries were very sweet and good to eat. 

As it was Amy's birthday, we stopped at Sarah's community for our lunch in their fellowship 'hall' 

Our hosts on the community 'green' 

Then back to town where Amy required some driving lessons on the manual transmission of the troopy, but we made it home.  Ready for another week