When crossing the border from NT into WA and the region surrounding Kununurra, you face strict quarantine restrictions on fruit, veg, honey etc in order to protect their flourishing orchard industry. We offloaded the remainder of our fruit and turned off 6km from the border, and wound along another 35km to the Lake Argyle Caravan Park, also called a resort as they have super cabins overlooking the lake. When they dammed the Ord River in the 1970's, Kununurra was created as a service town and thrived with all the irrigation available. During our dreadful drought during the 90's and 00's, there were a lot of envious people wondering how they could build a pipeline to access all that fresh water. Much of the region around Kununurra is leased to the Chinese to grow timber, which is shipped back for building purposes. They have an agreement to employ at least a third local people too according to the literature.
The infinity pool was crisp, cool and a welcome breather after the drive from Timber Creek.
The following morning we headed into the Mirima National Park on the outskirts of town - heralded as a mini-Bungle Bungles, and we went for a short 1.5km walk through the gullies and clambered most of the way up to the lookout (the porcupine grass stopped the girls getting to the top - my fault for putting them in shorts!).
We lunched at the delightful Kununurra Cafe were there were homemade sausage rolls, soup and loads of memorabilia about the Durack family who pioneered cattle grazing in the Kimberley in the 1850's. There are a couple of books people recommended about them - called Kings of Grass Country and another, so will download them to Kindle when I'm so inclined.
On the way back to camp, we headed out over the dam wall for an incredible view of Lake Argyle and chatted to other travelling families over at the camp kitchen while cooking our dinner. One of the joys of travelling.