My Kimberley Adventures

It was with huge relief and tears that Linda and I heard that over 60% of Australians had voted in favour of marriage equality. The next hurdle was to get the politicians who rule our lives to vote in favour and to make marriage equality legal. Before Xmas in 2017, marriage equality became law. Linda and I were free to make our relationship legal in the eyes of society and the law. We had previously booked a holiday - a long weekend in Broome for March 2018. Now it seemed only natural to "make it legal". To add to the excitement was that it was a Pride Weekend in Broome with a Drag Show and all things celebrating Gay Pride. We booked a celebrant and immediately started to organise all our paperwork that proved that we were who we said we were and that we were free to marry.  Just like everyone else who gets married....marriage equality already working for us. The next step was to find two witnesses. Who better than our Kimberley sisters, Belinda and Kylie. Belinda li...

Desperate to get away for the first camping for 2018, we decided to go to Parry's Creek Farm. We have visited there before but not camped. We knew that Easter would be hot so the idea of a pool and a pub was very appealing. We left on Saturday afternoon as Linda had to work. Being so close we were there by 2:30 and set up by 3:00. We hit the pool at 3:05PM. Later Linda went for a walk and I sat near our camp, enjoying the sounds of birds and distant rumbling thunder. I was apprehensive that we might get a Kimberley drenching but also peacefully calm listening to the sounds of nature and winding down for a long weekend by reading Kings in Grass Castles - the epic story of how members of the Irish Durack Family drove cattle from Queensland to The Kimberley's in the 1800's to establish a giant cattle empire. It took them a massive 2 years, fighting weather, disease and getting lost to get here and interestingly they established a settlement on the site of Parry Creek Farm b...