Kununurra is on the Ord River very close to Lake Argyle which is the largest inland lake in Australia and in fact is called an inland sea. The town is small but with quite a good shopping centre. The caravan parks are rather congested with smallish sites.
We went on a flight over the Bungle Bungles, Lake Argyle, the Argyle diamond mine and points in between. Never again will we get in such a small plane. It took 6 passengers and Ian described it as a Morris minor with wings and a victor mower engine. I was petrified most of the time and we were jammed in like sardines and couldn’t move once we were in. Unfortunately the Perspex windows were quite scratched and milky so the photos were quite poor. Having said that it was certainly an experience and we obviously saw much more from the air than we would ever have on the ground.
Lake Argyle is also famous for its zebra rock a siltstone which resembles the stipes on a zebra and can only be mined for a couple of months of the year when the water height goes down. It is the only place in the world where it can be found.
We camped at a quite nice spot on the road to Wyndham alongside Maggie creek. There are a couple of Brolgas which come and go, cormorants, kookaburras, corellas, whistling kite, rosellas, galahs, rainbow bee eaters and other little birds. The only drawback is that the site is not very level.
Wyndham was awful – enough said.
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