17 June Drysdale River Station

Packed up and drove onto Drysdale Station where Kate had arranged to meet her brothers who had flown into Broome and hired a car to travel the Gibb River Road.
Drysdale is a station located 60 kms off the Gibb River Road and is the stopover point for those wanting to travel to Mitchell Falls and Kalumbaru (an aboriginal community on the Norther Kimberley coast). We arrived in time to have a Kimberley burger in the Drysdale beer garden. Apparently these burgers are renowned in the Kimberleys and are even featured on a website. The size of a can of beer with absolutely everything on it and made from Drysdale beef. All this talk about a burger! You can tell we are starting to live off the remains of rations from Derby and dreaming about food! I now have to monitor the number of slices of bread the kids can eat so that we can stretch our supplies.
Kate’s brothers arrived safely in the early afternoon. Our travelling group is now 22. 12 of who are kids all around the same age as ours. The kids love having so many friends to play with. Every day is an adventure filled with trees to climb, rivers and gorges to swim in, mud, sticks and “stuff” to play with, and fires to start and sit by. The older girls have learned to play 500 and are spending a lot of time huddled together playing cards.Mind you, with so many kids, we have seen very little wildlife as the constant volume of children’s voices scares them away!