We’ve towed a caravan around this country for 150,000kms. According to the NT.gov.au website, there are over one million feral camels in this country. And you know what? We’ve never seen one of them! Maybe a few angry ones but … Continue reading Elusive Wild Camels
Up in the iron ore rich Pilbara of Western Australia, we spotted this pair of Little Corellas. Their normally off white feathers a delicate shade of pink from the iron ore. In fact just about everything has a coating of pink dust around Paraburdoo and Tom Price. Continue reading Little Corella
Day 99 Saturday 13th June 2015, 30 degrees Kununurra We are picked up by bus and taken out to Lake Argyle 70 kilometres away. On the way we visit the reconstructed Argyle Downs homestead the family home of the pioneering pastoralists … Continue reading Go West, Day 99 – Kununurra
Day 98 Friday 12th June 2015, warm, clear Kununurra Fancy having to wake up to an alarm. We have to be up at 4:30am for our Bungle Bungles flight at 6:00am. After waiting behind 24 other seniors from a bus … Continue reading Go West, Day 98 – Kununurra
Day 97 Thursday 11th June 2015, 29 degrees (doesn’t change much does it?) Wyndham to Kununurra Woody tells me that he has gotten 8 days out of one block of ice in the Techni Ice fridge. That’s pretty good considering … Continue reading Go West, Day 97 – Kununurra
Day 96 Wednesday 10th June 2015, overcast, warm 30. Wyndham We’re woken at sun up by the cheeky corellas, we should be used to this by now but we’re so close to the Northern Territory border that the sun rises at 5:50am and sets at 5:00pm whereas if we were another 100kms East it would be an hour and a half later. It feels like we’ve painted ourselves into a corner. This little park boasts that it has the largest boab tree in captivity ie it is within the park, anyway it is big and they reckon that it’s about … Continue reading Go West, Day 96 – Wyndham
Day 95 Tuesday 9th June 2015, wispy cloud 30 degrees Mabel Downs to Wyndham The little corrugated iron ensuite style bathrooms don’t have roofs, just a shower base with a good shower head above. Gazing up at the blue sky … Continue reading Go West, Day 95 – Wyndham
Day 94 Monday 8th June 2015, warm around 30 Spring Creek to Purnululu We cross the road and enter the Bungle Bungle Caravan Park which is part of Mabel Downs Station. In doing so we have created a new short distance record of about half a kilometre travelled. The caravan park is quite new and well set out. They do offer a cheap rate for those who wish to leave their van safely just for the day but we have decided to stay overnight anyway. Dear Veewee today we found a worse road than Fowler’s Bay!!! We unhook Priscilla and … Continue reading Go West, Day 94 – Purnululu
Day 93 Sunday 7th June 2015, warm 27 degrees Fitzroy Crossing to Spring Creek Woody goes out for fuel at 8:00 am and gets breathalysed it’s great to see the alcohol restrictions being enforced. The drive to Halls Creek is colourful, we rise up the Ngumban Cliffs and get a view south that stretches for miles. There are lots of mesas and jump ups, red soil, cream grasses and small spindly white trunked ghost gums. There are distant purple ranges and not a town. There is a feeling of remoteness out here and now there are more vans heading south … Continue reading Go West, Day 93 – Spring Creek
Day 92 Saturday 6th June 2015, warm 30 degrees Derby to Fitzroy Crossing Woody is complaining of bruised hands. From breaking the ice crust on his Techni Ice fridge whenever he gets a beer! The highway is lined with treed grasslands. The grass is so high that we only see the cows when they pop out to amble across the road. It’s a cattleman’s heaven as far as the eye can see. Fitzroy Crossing is quite small and a good way back from the river but we are later to learn that the town was moved when the bridge was … Continue reading Go West, Day 92 – Fitzroy Crossing
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