One week down..

Nearly 2 weeks at BLA.
So much has changed since we lived here, but many things are still the same.

Corrugated, dirt roads are still so close to town.  The outstation we are staying on is about 10 km from town.  3/4 of that road is corrugation.

We wanted to spend a couple of weeks at Robinson River station, but the road is too bumpy to take the van. This means we are limited to day visits.

Glenys really wanted to take the van until she saw a caravan being brought into town on the back of  a truck minus a couple of wheels and an axle. This put a damper on her ambitions. 

We could probably make it if we had a camper trailer, but not our van, even though it is an off roader!

Dennis & Vincent recording by the McArthur River

Marlene playing and singing

John on electric guitar

We have done some recording, so not too bad for one week into the trip!


Vincent is one of the church leaders who has served God faithfully since his conversion in the early 90's.  We sat down by the river to record. It is close to town away from the noise, but the black cockatoos decided they would serenade us.

John and Marlene have been working with us doing some songs. Sadly John's mother passed away and he has to go back home to Wiepa  to arrange her funeral. We dont know if he will be back in time for us to do any more recording

We have rounded up a couple of people who are willing to record the Garrawa language.  A couple of young men have done some trial with the Aboriginal English, but we still do not have some one to help translate the scripts into Aboriginal English.

Our evenings have been busy at Wandangula. The families have been asking for Christian videos to watch at night time.  We brought the projector and a screen, so it has been a regular occasion but we are fast running out of christian  videos.

Regular  evening activity