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Kimberley Cruise with Aurora Expeditions

8^th June 2007 – Montgomerry Reef

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Montgomery Reef exposed at low water. Showing the pass we entered through in Explorer

Exploring the coral reef

The sea cascades off the reef as it becomes exposed  at low water

Explorer waiting to pick us up in between the exposed reefs

A live Giant Clam shows us its interior

Cone Mollusc

Looking at the Bradshaw Paintings named after the man who first discovered them.  The aboriginals claim that they are nothing to do with them; this poses the question as to whether there was a race before the aboriginals in Australia.  Some aboriginals now claim ownership of the paintings as if they don’t it could affect their land claims!

Aboriginal Rock paintings of the first explorers, believing they were gods as in Aboriginal law gods were white like their Wandjina paintings

Helicopter Flight to Mitchell Falls

Mitchell Falls

Ready for take-off

It took a fast 2 kilometre march to see more rock paintings as we only had 50 minutes at the falls

The Hunter River seen from the air

This is real Saltwater Croc country

We spotted one of the beasts on a later boat trip