Kununurra
Travel Blogs from Kununurra, Australia
It never rains in June
... quite heavily and Adrian was going to pull into Halls Creek caravan park when his boss rang and told him to drive on to Kununurra. We had already been driving for many hours and Kununurra was a further 4 hours drive in heavy rain. The group took the ...
Revisiting the past
... tent and attached strings to the fly to hold it away from the tent. All our plans are blown because we can't move out of Kununurra. I once had a friend here but after 24 years I held out little hope that I would be able to find her. I asked at ...
What drought?
... we were headed off there the following morning. This was indeed very good news, even though it was a delight to see Narelle again, 3 nights stuck in Kununurra was enough. Now if only the Bungle Bungles road would open then we would really be back on ...
"Licking green ant's bums...!"
... time, you canoe nearly 60km (40 miles), starting at a dam built upstream, and finishing, tired and sun burnt, downstream in Kununurra. The beauty of this tour is that it really is self-guided. The manager helps you pack up the canoe at the beginning, ...
Australia - Kununurra (Bungle Bungles)
... New Zealand, USA and Canada and an array of other services and benefits such as discounted tours, attractions and car hire across Australia. After showers and a BBQ we bedded down for an early night in preparation for our 4:45am wake-up call. Day ...
Racing the Planet: Australia 2010
I am going to make this a short entry as most of the information about Racing the Planet: Australia 2010 can be obtained from this website, including info on the course, the volunteers, the competitors and tons of photos ...
Into the Kimberleys
Perth/Monkey Mia/Broome/Kununurra Ahhh Australia, the land down under, the land of wide open spaces, the crocodile hunter, pearl fishing, koalas and roos and much, much more. I arrived at Perth airport at around 5:30am and got through immigration and ...
Kununurra - luxury hotel and hospital
... Next morning I headed to the supermarket to stock up on baby nurofen only to find that supermarkets in Australia do not sell baby medicine and the pharmacy in Kununurra shuts at midday on a Saturday until Monday morning. So, we had no choice but to ...
Kimberley Capers…Kununurra
... temperature hitting the high thirties every day, we were grateful for the swimming pool and our air-conditioning! Highlights of Kununurra: - The Grotto ...
EL Questro Wilderness Park Adventure!
To get into EL Questro you need a 4WD, So we hired one from Thriffty! It was a Parado. The first attraction we went to was Zebedee Springs. They were warm springd with waterfalls and palm trees covering it from the sun. They were really nice to sit in. ...
Australian Adventure Week Twelve!
... homestead of a cattle ranch. The next day we drove west and camped in a rest area just before the border. Western Australia has strict quarantine regulations so we had an evening to try and eat as much of our fruit and vegetables as we could ...
What a diamond!
... expensive. We have decided that next time we do this it will be in a 4wd camper - you miss alot of places in a 2wd. Kununurra is a great resting spot - its very quiet here and today we just went into town and did some shopping - I didnt buy the ...
20 Years In The Making!
... last win in 1990 and only wish we could go to the family day tomorrow. Still, we will remember watching this game in Kununurra forever. Hopefully we don’t have to wait another 20 years for it to happen again!!! Go Pies!! I ...
Wszedzie woda, duuuzo wody
Slonce obudzilo nas dzisiaj wczesnie, ciekawi nowych widokow ruszylismy na tame. Odwiedzlismy dwa punkty widokowe, glowy chodzily nam dookola 360 stopni- co za wspanialy widok! Sama tama wyglada z wysoka niepozornie, ale jak sie na niej stoi to dopiero ...
A Nice Surprise!
We left Kununurra and headed to Lake Argyle. On route we turned off the highway near a creek – Middle Creek as suggested by a guy on the Gibb River Road for the aboriginal art there. Was a bit random driving down this random track off the highway ...
There's nearly half australia over here in WA!
... put on our computer too - we had a movie marathon & caught up on heaps of idiot box time. I finally got to see 'Australia' Sam! We left Barn Hill; it was time for us to get more supplies & get to Broome. Arriving there ...
Kununarra and the Bungles
... seat which was good for photos. We started off flying over the Ord river which is one of the biggest rivers in Australia, this was dammed in the '60s to create a huge irrigated area which is used to grow mangoes melons grapefruit amongst other ...
Day FORTY FIVE
... the driving (and minus the bumps of the aeroplane!!) and doing the listening rather than the lecturing. The ranges around Kununurra are really interesting and varied. Hearing the lifestyles and characters from the past I can state categorically that I ...
Bathroom stories
Hi all, Ros has been doing a fabo job with the travel deatails to all.However, there have been several stories that she has not passed on that should be told.They centre around conversations in the washroom/wc. We are curretly stayind at a 5star(how ...
West to Kununarra
... Bungles. A pleasant night here, a walk, and then we were back on the road and crossing the border to Western Australia and changing our clocks back to Singapore time. Kununarra was a very respectable little town really with an excellent coffee shop ...
"Gorge"-ous
... behind here, but there's so much to do and in such a short time, I feel constantly rushed....everyone I've met is traveling Australia for 3-6 months, and here's little old me with only 8ish weeks...but I will try and do some catching up soon, if I can ...
Dotarlismy do East Kimberley
... turystycznego, tysiace srebrnych lisow ze swoimi wypolerowanymi do nieprzyzwoitosci karawanami I pekajace w szwach kempingi. Tak wlasnie wyglada Kununurra. Miasteczko jest malutkie, zaledwie kilka ulic na krzyz, kilka farm mango w tle, dwa sklepy ...
Bungling On
... in a primitive , elemental way. Gregory and Keep River National Parks, near the border between the Northern Territory and Western Australia, were two of my favourite locations on this trip, all raw red rock walls fronted with glossy ferns and a ...
Life is a River Crossing
... river is now an inland sea in the form of Lake Argyle, then dammed again to provide agriculture irragation to the lower ord valley aroung Kununurra. Kunu~bloody~nurra is a great town if you only give it time to grow on ya. Had a blast in this country hub ...
Another state to add to the list
We left Katherine Gorge this morning and drove to Kununurra (had to stop at quarantine to give up fruit, veg and honey). When we got to Kununurra, we drove into town to see if we could get the permits we needed. The tourist office was closed, but they ...
A Pool, a Dam and a Twister!
We have booked into the Ivanhoe Village Caravan Park in Kununurra for two nights..... tomorrow we are going on a scenic flight over the bungle bungles (pick up at 5.30am!!!!!!).... we got a standby rate of $210.00 each... not too bad for a 2 hour ...
Day FORTY TWO
... well since it is “plant material”. The drug – bust was also the border to WA the only state in Australia we haven’t been to (according to Will!) We were all excited about entering more unfamiliar territory - except for me who said ...
A big pond in WA
... to Kununurra. Kununurra means 'open water' and the town was built in the late 1960s to support the construction of the Kununurra Diversion Dam and later the Ord River Dam, both for agricultural irrigation. These were projects from another ...

