Jandamarra

We knew it was going to be busy at the famous Broome markets today so we had a minimal breakfast and arrive at the market before 9am. My first procurement was a Fruit Thingy (finely minced frozen fruit) with Mango and Coconut, a bit like ice cream but much better and healthier.

We also tried some of the asian foods, listened to the many buskers and watched the wildlife demonstrations.

At 10:30 I took Alexander to Gantheaum point where we met with Cameron, the owner of Sentosa Charters) who has been Alexander's idol ever since he took us on a fishing charter in 2009. Cameron was kind enough to have Alexander work as a trainee deck hand on today's whale watching charter. At 11AM Cameron and his regular deck hand arrived and took Alexander out to the boat (Kai-Aura, a 50 foot twin hull) to start work and prepare the boat for the passenger which arrived at 1pm.

I went back to the market to pick up the others and then back to the caravan where we spent the afternoon chatting to the neighbour who is a retired agricultural researcher. After a late lunch we made our way back to Gantheaum point around 5pm to pick up Alexander but we had to wait until after 6pm and watched another sunset.

Alexander was very exited and had an excellent work day (first ever). The only bits of "real" work was vacuuming and polishing, the rest was just having fun on a boat - what a job!

We went straight to St.Marys school to watch an Aboriginal theatrical production called "Jandamarra". The production is touring the Kimberley and tells the story of an worrier from the Bunaba, his friendship with the white settlers and the way he was torn between the two worlds. The production was fantastic and one of the best I have seen in a long time.

Here is a link to the Jandamarra website.

Back at the caravan by 10pm we had a late dessert of ice cream with mango sauce followed by coconut milk which we drained from a coconut found in Broome earlier in the day.