Daly River Mango Farm Tourist Park

Our friends Dingo and Lucy Parry with help from family, and other members of the same language group, are willing to take people on guided trips on their traditional lands for hunting or cultural tours, which can include finding bush tucker etc. wetlands photography, pig hunting, fishing.
As Dingo does not have a telephone Gary & Rhonda Higgins of Daly River Mango Farm Tourist Park, have agreed to make arrangements and bookings on behalf of the Parrys.
Phone 08 89782464 or Freecall 1800 000576 mangofarm@mangofarm.com.au www.mangfarm.com.au

Lunch with Friends

On another day out Jeanette and I were treated to lunch by our hosts, and here the Wallaby is being butchered to provide the coal roasted ribs and Wallaby Stew

What did the Survey Find?

At Nauiyu on Thursday, right next to where the "Yellow Peril" had been parked when we took the photos, there as predicted was a drilling rig!!

BUT, on the Nauiyu football ground??

Will this be the first big open cut mine?

Lets hope there is some other reason.

"YELLOW PERIL"

Curiously, during the same period that the Helicopter and team from GEOTECH Airborne Pty Ltd were based at Mango Farm another survey team from a different company based at the Nauiyu airstrip were also flying out over the same areas as the helicopter. Indeed on one morning we could hear the fixed wing aircraft over the river on the airstrip start the engine at the same time that the helicopter here at Mango Farm also started the engine. As the area of the Mango Farm that the Helicopter was using is located in line with the landing circuit for aircraft going into Nauiyu we did wonder if the “Yellow Peril” aircraft could end up tangled in the “Big Ring” hanging below the helicopter? This aircraft was very fast, much faster than any other aircraft that operates around here.

A Big Metal Detector

Sunday 20th July a “big” helicopter arrived at Daly River Mango Farm Tourist Park, which the tourists thought was to entertain them. And indeed it was most intriguing for the next ten days for many of the travelling public to be able to observe from outside their caravans as the skilful pilot would lift the intricate arrangement of Kevlar ropes and lines plus electrical connections and the actual unit to enable scanning of the countryside with what in essence was the biggest metal detector we have ever seen. The 26 metre diameter“ring” was hollow ducting some constructed of fibre glass and some of graphite fibre with four lots of electrical cable running through the ducting. Prior to each flight magnetic influence was checked and the computers formatted. At the end of each two hour survey the data was dispatched via satellite internet connection to the parent company in USA, where the client would then be supplied with the data. After the client checked the data the advice would then come back with further instructions on how to continue to carry out the survey. And unfortunately the client was pleased with the findings and the drilling rigs are on the way to do the test holes that will ultimately lead to huge open cut mining ruining the country to put the main profits in the pockets of uncaring overseas investors!!!!!!!!!!! And will that lead to noxious by-products leaching into the Daly River? Mining destroys so much!
Future generations of Australians will end up with a country that is nothing more than a huge degraded crater, and the only compensation being employment for a few.