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Location Date Queensland 1469142000 Victoria 1467932400 French Polynesia 1465686000 Western Australia 
1438902000 Northern Territory 1433804400 South Australia 1432940400 New South Wales 1402700400 -
Location Date Denham 1438902000 Exmouth 1438124400 Karratha 1436828400 Broome 1436223600 Kununurra
1434668400 South Boulder 1375484400 Kalgoorlie 1375398000 Menzies 1375311600 Karijini 1375052400 Port Hedland 1374793200 Cable Beach 1374620400 Dampier Peninsula 1374102000 Derby 1373670000 Fitzroy Crossing 1373410800 Purnululu 1373324400 Durack 1373151600 -
Location Date Fri, 19 June 2015 1434684436 Sun, 07 July 2013 1373198265 Thu, 04 July 2013 1372939032 Wed, 03 July 2013
1372840073 Tue, 02 July 2013 1372733413
Kununurra is lovely. Today is all food shopping, cleaning and washing etc sadly it has to be done especially when you have to empty the fridge of fruit and veg to cross in to WA. After wanting an Argyle diamond for along while, I have the priviledge to go and buy a nice cognac diamond. Trouble is I had to have my ring repaired to put it in. Early birthday present. Mr M did a flight this am over Lake Argle and Bungle Bungles. He got the front seat and had a female pilot.
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Arthur Mullins The Caravan of Courage, what a name to travel under. My first trip into the Kimberley's was in 1964, roads were unheard of and were lines on a map, mostly tracks and just where you were was uncertain until you made the next civilised area. It is all so different now, there was no Lake Argyle, only the plans and surveyors were busy. I have seen Lake Argyle and flown over the Bungle Bungles later when travelling in the camper with Merv. We were up in the air and saw a face of the open cut diamond mine and the dust rising and that is as near as I have ever been to a diamond mine. All interesting country. The Bandicoot Bar was opened by Prime Minister Menzies two weeks before we arrived, that first time in 64. We saw the garden created for the opening ceremony starting to die. The huge floods that used to come down the Ord are now held back in Lake Argyle. The learnt the history of the cattle king who brought cattle from Queensland to start the huge cattle stations and one of the old cattle station buildings is rebuilt above the water and now a museum. How the whole place has changed over the years. How irrigation has changed the whole area to produce food in huge quantities. Australia the lucky country.