Kununurra

Staying at Ivanhoe Village Caravan Resort for 7 nights.  Visited Coles to stock up on fruit and vegies after coming through the Quarantine check point at the border, didn't have much left only a couple of 

onions, garlic cloves and a bit of celery!  Coles certainly had plenty of travellers in the fruit & vegie

section.

Had a quiet day on Sunday, washing sheets towels etc and even washed the floor in the van.  Cooked a lamb roast for dinner, it's great having the oven.  Have used the air conditioner since Darwin even some nights which makes it very pleasant.

Monday 4th Aug. decided to visit Wyndham just a day trip, only 100 klms from Kununurra.  A nice drive   with ranges both sides of the road for most of the way.  Wyndham is in the same category as Port Kenny and Elliott!!!  The only good thing about the town was the up The Bastion Range for the Five Rivers Lookout which was 330 metres high above sea level with a great backdrop of Wyndham.  5 Rivers flow into the Cambridge Gulf (King, Ord, Durack, Forrest & Pentacost ) at Wyndham, the water is all brown from the tidal movement.  

This picture is quite typical of the country side that has had a fire through fairly recently.

This jetty is a recent addition to the town.

A view from the lookout.

Another view from the lookout of the Cambridge Gulf.

We stopped on our way home to look at "The Grotto" about 30 Klms from Wyndham.  A large and deep rock pool surrounded by huge vertical cliffs. The sign says the water is 300 foot deep, it would be really beautiful in the wet season with the water falls.

Had a lovely day out on Lake Argyle on a cruise on Tuesday.  A bus picked us up at the caravan park and headed for Lake Argyle which is about 70 klms from Kununurra back towards the NT/WA border. 

Had a quick look at the Argyle Homestead Museum, it was the former home of the Durack family who were prominent pioneer pastoralists in the Kimberley's in the 1880s and sat on the Argyle Downs Station and was carefully dismantled and reconstructed stone by stone at its present site in the 1970s during the construction of Lake Argyle.

We drove over the wall of the lake to view the hydro plant we were amazed how small the wall was holding back so much water.

Our cruise was on a 50ft Kimberley Cat, we sailed the Eastern Straight of Lake Argyle it was a bit windy some of the time but very relaxing, took a bottle of white wine as it was BYO. The amount water is massive just like being on the ocean.

Did some more sights of Kununurra over the next few days just a few pics below

Ivanhoe Crossing  just out of Kununurra this was part of the original road from Wyndham to Katherine. Signs say: Fishing is a favourite pastime around the Crossing but please be crocodile aware and definitely No Swimming.

Scenic view over the town and valley from Kelly's Knob Lookout.

This is the Hoochery where we had lunch and sampled and bought some Ord River whiskey and liqueur.  Just down the road was the Sandlewood Factory, there are some quite large Indian Sandlewood plantations around Kununurra.

 

This is Lily Creek Lagoon from the Celebrity Tree Park close by the centre of town, with some very large boabs.