6th June 2026: Did a big wash of all sheets and towels pre Cape trip. I then went to the Saturday am market and stocked up on seasonal vegies and fruit, followed by frozen Karumba Barramundi at Carrots Friut and Veg. We then drove to Hopevale, a neat and tidy town. We went into the main store which stocked a wide range of fresh produce and hardware and kitchen articles, a far cry from the white bread, white flour and white sugar in the store in 1980. We then went into search of the old health centre I used to visit but I hardly recognised it. A new health centre has been built next door.
We then drove to Elim beach, a camping and fishing spot, and we went into search search of the “coloured sands” not evident where they were supposed to be. We returned to Cooktown- had a look at the Cook Monument and a collection of tiles put together for the bicentenary.
The washing dried well in very strong winds! I made us an omelette and salad for dinner.
FUN FACT: “Kangaroo” is from ‘gangurru’, used by the Guugu Yimithirr people, with whom Cook and the crew of the Endeavour engaged with in 1770, for the large male eastern grey kangaroo. The female is ‘walurr’. ‘Nharrgali’ is the red kangaroo and other kangaroos and wallabies have their own names. The Guugu Yimithirr culture also has a respectful “brother-in-law” form of speech used only in the presence of specific taboo relative in which there the term ‘daarraalangan’ is used for all local species of kangaroo. Other tribes in the region (and elsewhere) have very different terminologies.
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