taken at the first rock ledge - looking down on the bay in Prudhoe Island |
The Crystal Island – Prudhoe Island Montague Sound
I had a small lie-in, not getting
up till after 0600 then cooked a big Sunday breakfast and MrJ had found ABC
National on the radio, short wave. He had Macca on a Sunday Morning but it
didn’t last for long as the boat swung the signal dropped out.
It was not long after I
had cleaned up that MrJ and I dropped the tinny to go exploring. We could see
some caves high up in the rock ridge to the south. Maybe we could climb up there was our thoughts. Must have been
getting over confident with our thoughts!I can climb that |
Once we had found a way of
getting ashore with all the large rocks around the foreshore and the steep
banks that were almost like small cliffs.
ready for the climb |
a hard climb |
the crystal bay |
do you think this rock looks like a camel's head? |
Anyway no croc or any
signs of crocs were seen but we did see one very interesting thing. Crystals! A
huge vein of quartzite crystals! I had been looking at a long vein of solid
iron stone between the sandstone and the quartzite (most of the island of the
Montague Sound are of sandstone and quartzite) and buried in the sandy rubble
was a mixture of broken coral and shells, bits of ironstone pebbles and shards
of quartzite. To my surprise some of the quartzite was in perfect crystal form.
Only a few feet away were several huge veins of crystal rock. How amazing! MrJ
and I collected several broken off pieces and then left the magical crystal
kingdom by the sea. I do know of other places that we have been told to look
for the crystals and all places are in this same area of the Kimberley’s but on
the mainland.
Back on board AR MrJ and I
gave both the outboard motors a clean out with a product called Salt-Away.
Salt-Away could be mixed with either salt or freshwater, we put it in a large bucket
of salt water and then put the bucket under the outboard propeller, turned the
motor over so that the outboard sucked the Salt-Away water in through the sea
suction or water inlet to clean the salt build up from inside the water
pipes/hoses etc.
Do you know what happens
when you start an outboard motor in a bucket of water?I get wet!!!!!!
Later that afternoon a big aluminium motor catamaran, Orca Blue, came into Shelter Bay to anchor across the way. The fella, Stephen, came over in his large bright yellow poly plastic tinny, too big to call a dinghy for a bit of a chat. There were from Perth and on their way to Darwin to see family. Stephen did offer us the use of his mooring in Broome while he was not using it. Nice fella, maybe we will!
crystal colour in the sunset |
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