Rick and Rae's Travels: Sat, 2nd July

We all got going early in the morning again and headed about 250kms to Wyndham. The scenery along the way was beautiful but there is nothing to the township of Wyndham apart from some dilapidated buildings. We stopped at the town park to take photos of the Big Crocodile. Steve bought a carved Boab nut and Faye bought a painting from a couple of Aboriginal guys in the park. Seconds later they were seen leaving the bottle shop with 2 cartons of beer, heading back to a group of their friends sitting under a tree not far away.

There are severe restrictions on the purchase of alcohol in this part of the country. You can only purchase light beer during the day and only one bottle of spirit or 2 bottles of wine or 1 carton of full strength beer per person only after 5pm. Wine is only sold in bottles up here ... no casks available. Too bad if you are travelling and you want to stock up on a week's supply to last you through to the next major town or buy when on special.

Steve had the idea that we should all drive back to a free camp located at the corner of the turnoff into Wyndham. All was well until about 6pm when several car loads of Aboriginals arrived to finish off their alcohol before returning to Wyndham. They were extremely rowdy and stayed until about 7pm, before tearing off in their vehicles. All went quiet then until about midnight. Then we were woken to the sounds of another Aboriginal couple arguing ... fortunately the noise didn't last too long before they too drove off. As we were camped at the juction of two major roads, we had a lot of noisy trucks passing through all night too.