Cape Arnhem

Boxing Day a fantastic day spent at Cape Arnhem, Gove. The Rue's, Petrofes' and Aguirre's left Nhulunbuy at 9:30 AM and after 2 hours arrived at the location. The distance as the crow flyies is only 15 miles however it is a winding trip thorugh the bush only accessible via 4x4 or by boat. The trip in 3 Land cruisers was not uneventful. Steve was the first one to get bugged, followed by Gus. It took a bit of shoveling sand and the strength of the 2 youngsters, Audi and Mathew, and also Charles and Peggy to help push the land cruisers out of the sand. Once you arrive to Cape Arnhem I realized that the trip is worth it every bit. The scenery is fantastic, the water, the beach, the igneous rock, the vegetation growing in this sandy, rocky place is breath taking. The nature is virgin. Charles took us to a "lagoon" which is a small bay where we swam and snorkeled, jumped of the cliff and prayed for no croc's or stingers. Fortunately did not have any of that. Charles also tought us how to find oysters and found some. We ate them out of the shell. Abigail played with the clams and gathered all kinds of shells. At 4PM it waas time to return and unfortunately there is no other way out but the one that we came in. SO there we went, Steve got us lost first, Charles took the lead but also got us lost and bugged down. Then Charles took the lead followed by Gus who was watching in the rear view mirror for Steve. Gus slowed down to see if Steve was coming without realizing that Steve had to slow down because Gus was in front and as result Steve got bugged down. All in all we got out of the place. The driving is half od the fun. This is definitely the place to have a 4x4. It is used to its potential.