Day 18 06/06/2013 Home Valley Station to Drysdale River Station. Once again we are camped on a property. Increasing tourism, (which I wrote about yesterday), has led to many cattle stations diversifying into accommodation. We left Home Valley at around 7.30am. The sunrise over the river was lovely and I even spotted a sea eagle soaring around. This region has an abundance of Kapok trees. The tree has bright yellow flowers and the seed pods contain kapok, which...

Day 17 05/06/2013 Kununurra to Home Valley Station. From our campsite it was only a very short walk to see the sun come up over Lily Creek lagoon and to listen to the dawn chorus. We were packed up and on our way by 7am! We hadn't planned a long day.....about 150km to Home Valley Station. The road from Kununurra to the start of the Gibb River Road is sealed, and to our surprise so was the next 50 or so km to the turn off to El Questro Wilderness Park. When we la...

Day 16 04/06/2013 Lake Argyle to Kununurra. Up early again.....we are not used to WA time yet! Headed into the town of Kununurra, only a 70 km drive. Kununurra is an Aboriginal word meaning ' meeting of the waters'. It is in Kununurra where two large rivers meet... The Ord and the Bow. It is said to be the youngest town in Australia since it was only established around the time of the proposal to dam the Ord river. The area around Kununurra is pastoral land and ...

Day 15 03/06/2013 Lake Argyle Tourist Resort. It gets light very early in this part of WA....... and being adjusted to NT time, we were awake at 5am, thinking it was 6.30am! It was a beautiful dawn......after a very warm night. I mentioned that we ditched the fleecy PJs sometime ago.....now we have ditched the doona too, in favour of a sheet! We had a very lazy breakfast and watched a flock of red-tailed black cockatoos making a raucous noise in nearby trees. T...

Day 14 02/06/2013 Dunmarra Roadside Inn to Lake Argyle(WA), via Katherine. We had a reasonable night. There was a bit of noise when the pub closed, and the road trains were passing through all night. This, of course, is one of the down sides to camping near the road; but sometimes it is unavoidable. As we were packing up, a Greyhound bus, headed for Darwin, pulled in to get fuel and drop off supplies. These buses are sometimes used instead of the postal service....