Kununurra Hostels - Reviews and Rates

It was just as well that we had a shower block because we had to shelter under the veranda when rain came in the early hours. It had stopped by breakfast (5.30am) and we had bacon and egg. There was enough left to give some to a fellow camper (originally from Devon) who was cycling from Brisbane around Australia. He reckoned it would take him ab...

John and i rode our bikes down to the lake and hired a paddle boat for the morning to go croc hunting. We set our full steam ahead, through the lilly-pads and weed, spotting spectacular looking birds and plenty of catfish and a heap of big splashs. Would seem that John and I are not good croc spotters and the paddle boat was nearly running over ...

Gibb River Road

23 May to 5 June

The Gibb River Road (or the Jib as our gps Karen calls it!) is billed as one of the big 4WD adventures in Australia so we have been really looking forward to it. This is what all the prep has been about – two spare tires, compressor, jumper leads, recovery gear, snatch strap etc.etc. We had he...

Packed up this morning and headed off for Emma Gorge. This is part of El Questro but is on the other side of the GRR about 10 kms towards Kununurra. Arrived there and set off for the gorge walk which is accessed from the car park. This is a 1.6 km walk - rated medium difficulty but supposed to take 1hr each way. We thought that 1hr to do 1.6 km ...

The next leg was the area that Keith was least looking forward to: the long haul over to Broome. 513Kms from Katherine is the little oasis town of Kununurra. We utilised it as a rest stop, although there's plenty to see if you have the energy. It was pretty hot (hovering around 40), so we spent most of our time around the pool in the van park. W...

All you can really say about the trip yesterday is WOW!! I am not going to go into facts and figures (27 x Sydney Harbour volume over 2000 square k held in by 1 dam wall )but this inland sea has to be seen to be believed!! The irony of it is that it hardly gets used, cruel when water is so scarce in most of the country, but its just so far away....

Passed through Timber Creek, a tiny roadside servo and shop "the croc shop". The shop collects fruit and other foods that travellors want to donate before arriving at the quarantine post at the state border. The shop then gives this produce to the local school. The border crossing was quite straight forward and after that we arrived in Kununarra...

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 flight! This afternoon we took a dip in the pool within the caravan park........ which was awesome, ...

Seit Katherine haben wir viel erlebt und uns vorallem an Busch-Camp 2-3 Tage ohne Dusche gewoehnt. Jetzt gefaellt es uns sogar! Wir sind im Gregory NP einen 4WD-Track gefahren. Das war ein Abenteuer! Er wurde als schwer eingestuft und fuer die 90km musste man 8h Fahrzeit rechnen. Wir fuehren ueber Kalk-und Sandstein z.T. fasst wie eine Treppe ho...

Continued from ; Kununurra Kununurra is a modern town surrounded by cattle stations and farms which have had some success growing crops using water channelled here via a diversion dam along the Ord river. Kununurra is an ancient word meaning river. I take a brief visit to see Kelly's Knob - a large hill which is gated off to vehicles at the fina...