Day 63

Day 63 Kununurra

We are now sitting next to Lake Argyle in a lovely caravan park with an infinity pool that overlooks the lake, well it is an infinity pool if you squat down in the water and don’t go close to the edge. The

The Boab at the park

Sunrise over Girt and Trude

drive here was uneventful but reasonably quick. Wyndham has a few things to see here such as the Big Croc and at our park there are 2 more. Fuzzy the donkey we mentioned before is a scuffy arsed donkey if ever I saw one. It has this long hair that needs a good comb. Fuzzy was saved as a baby when they went through and shot all the wild donkeys on Flora Station, some 10,000 were culled. He has wandered the streets here ever since and still does today where he was in the campers kitchen scrounging food.

Fuzzy waiting for breakfast

Fuzzy

The other site is the Big Boab. It is huge and is again in the park. We could have parked next to it when we came in but it was a choice between shade and next to the pool and toilets or out in the sun next to the boab. It was a close call, but we chose the shade. The tree is a bit of a tourist attraction and some people come through just to look at it. It is about the size of the Police Boab but not as scarred up as the others where people seem to have this urge to carve their names in the bark like we really care they were there! A

Maureen winding up leg

Mud brick in leg

pet hate of mine is this craving to carve into trees.

We packed up our goods and chattels into our rather dirty looking vehicles. Girt looks like she was in the sea rather than by it. The drive into Parry Creek Caravan Park not only saw water over the top of Trude, but also over the top of Girt and the red muddy water can be seen on the outside. It had gone over so much mud that when we went to wind one of the legs up, there was this brick of mud in there! We have promised her a bath at the next stop. Trude on the other hand had been reasonably clean after being in the rain but had gotten rather dirty and dusty yesterday and was looking decidedly

Girt after her mud bath

Trude looking dusty

dusty today. Both are on a promise of cleaner days soon.

We drove to Kununurra through some lovely country. There were hills and ranges all the time, some in the distance and others up close. The countryside here is beautiful and ever changing. We came over the spillway into Kununurra. We had not really decided where we were going to stop tonight. Maureen said we would go into Kununurra and have a look around before going out to Lake Argyle. I took that to mean we were

View to Kununurra

German tourists

going to a park in Kununurra, just not sure which one. Maureen meant we would drive through town and see what was there and then continue on to Lake Argyle. Driving through an unknown town with 2 ½ tonnes on the back was not what I call an ideal touring setup. I stopped at the Tourist Centre and Maureen wandered in to see what we could find. We then filled up Trude with gas and headed off to Lake

German camper company

View on way to lake argyle

Argyle. We intend to return to Kununurra on another day and do a touristy day. In the carpark of the shops were these two monstrous off road trucks/campers. They are registered in Germany and they had 4 Germans in them. We stopped and chatted to them and the story is that there are 26 of the driving around the world and they have done Europe, middle east, Iran, Afghanistan and East Timor before coming here. They have split up and are driving around Australia and most are meeting up in Perth to go on to

View on way to Lake Argyle

View on way to Lake Argyle

America. One of these was going to New Zealand first. The trucks are huge and were made by this ladies company and they were spending a few years driving round and trying them out. They were most impressive.

The road out to Lake Argyle is lovely and offers scenic view after scenic view. We arrived at Lake Argyle Caravan Park and the lovely people here directed us to our spot under some lovely shady trees. We setup camp and then wandered over to the pool for a cool off.

pool at Lake Argyle

Black cockatoo

There was a small mob of Red Tailed Black Cockatoos there that kept us entertained as they shredded the branches of some poor little shrub. The views are again spectacular, a word I think I am going to wear out. If you were a painter, you would not know where to start. You see one angle or scene and go wow, you go a bit further and again, wow another scene and so it goes.

After a swim I retired to Girt for a nanny nap and we are now just waiting for a load of washing to go

Black cockatoo

Maureen in pool

through before going back for another swim. Tomorrow Maureen is looking at going on one of the walk trails to see what they are like. She will head off early to beat the heat.

OMG I was just about to post this page when I realised our hotspot is not picking up any signal, we are off the air. We may have to go into Kununurra sooner so we can get some coverage.