Kununurra

Well here we are at lake Argyle on the Ord river in Western Australia, Kimberly region. 2 days since our
last post & once again composing off line with no idea when we will be able to upload.
They have a sattellite uplink here between 4.30 & 6.30, I tried it this afternoon & it was pretty much crap,
totally unsuitable for uploading. I never realised how stunning this area would be.
The lake is enormous, virtually an inland sea. all behind 1 relatively small & strategically placed wall.
The colours are stunning with deep blues & reds. We also passed through some other really interesting areas,
I will let the pictures tell the story. Our time zone is now 2 hours behind the East coast, which has greatly
improved the sunrise & sunset times to more realistic times, it is now pretty much normal.
Until we crossed this time line the sun was not getting up till nearly 8am & not setting until after 7pm,
completely crazy for mid winter. With every day being blue & 35 degrees or higher it does not feel like
winter either. I will try to upload again tomorrow, I won't hold my breath.

It has been 3 days since the above entry, lots has happened. We have swum, helicoptered, kayaked & cruised the lake
 & still only seen a small part of this massive lake which is 70k long & 50k wide, it just disappears over the
horizon. We have also checked out much of the surrounding points of interest. Additionally we have killed another
kangaroo, this time with a fair bit of damage to my much loved ute, which is now held together with packing tape.
Today we arrived in Kununurra, checked out a few local points of interest & tomorrow we are heading up to
Wyndham for a day trip. Sorry for the crazy gaps in the text, but copy & paste behaves strangely on this blog site.
A heap of pics to follow.............

 Early morning prior to departure at Edith river.

 Breakfast as above.

 Another of the many hundreds of floodways. ??????????????

 Picture of some hill somewhere.

 On the road approaching Victoria river. The red dirt is getting darker.

 Some of the many rugged escarpments near Victoria river.

 As above.

 The bridge over the Victoria river into the giant military training area.

 Big Horse camp ground, its a lot dustier than it looks.

 one of the many big Boab trees.

 Victoria river at sunset.

 Another view of the bridge into troubled waters.

 The Victoria river is a lot larger than I expected.

 A male Bower bird dancing in front of his bower. While we were watching a female did come and inspect his work & he quickly grabbed a piece of green glass to show her & then spat it out & showed off half a blue peg. She was very impressed.

 Morning walk to the bridge.

 View from the bridge.

 We did not enter.

 Steve & his combi are still meeting up with us on a regular basis.

 Finally after over 5000k we reach the WA border & continue heading west.

 Some more hills in some unknown place.

 The overflow from Lake Argyle & into the Ord river.

 Driving into Lake Argyle.

As above.

 Another different bower bird at Lake Argyle.

 Pano of the infinity pool at the Lake Argyle van park.

 Pano Ord overflow.

 Durak homestead moved to this location stone by stone as its original location is now 30 metres under water.

 Durack homestead.

 Lake Argyle hydro station.

 Floatplane leaving the lake.

 Pano dam wall & lake.

 Looking down at the hydro station from the dam wall.

 The chopper landing prior to taking us up. The doors were off, making the experience that much better.

 Lake view from the chopper.

 A birds eye view of the relatively small dam wall.

 Watching the sunset from a hilltop.

 Very nice.

 A miniature kingfisher on our morning walk, only about 3 inches long.

 Wild Kimberly chooks.

 Aerial view of the dam.

 The good looking guy on the left is me.

Argyle van park.

The pool.................................................video

Flying over Mcleans, who were in the boat..............video

 Morning walk, Lake Argyle.

 River crossing closed, Kununurra.

 Kununurra from Kellys Knob.

 Kayaking on argyle. Now I'm glad I brought it.

 In the shade of the cliffs.

 Lake.

 Yvonne in the pool.

 One of many fresh water crocs spotted on our boat cruise. They estimate a population of 35,000 crocs in the lake.

 Yvonne on the boat.

 Feeding fish some bread, over the side of the boat.

 A sunset swim off the back of the boat in 60 metres of water. Thats me with a can of beer in hand , in the foreground. They told us the fresh water crocs don't attack people & no one was actually eaten. The water was warm & comfortable.

 Sunset on the way home in the boat.

 Camp Argyle.

Smashed light & bent guard. Very annoying, thats 2 dead roos & 1 dead eagle. Hopefully thats all the animals we will hit.