Hotel Kununurra

... Horace.<br><br>After checking out the very cramped campsite, we made our way to the Mirima NP (Hidden Valley) known to the locals as the 'Mini-Bungles&#8217; as the sandstone outcrops here resemble those at the much larger Bungle Bungle range in the nearby Purnulu NP. We then drove up Kelly&#8217;s Knob (tee hee) and looked out over the town as the sun set. We saw a couple of interesting things including the airport and some parties kicking off in the ...

Wow we arrived in WA on Friday and it is great to get across the border, We did have to throw out some fruit and veg but stocked up again. As we headed into WA it becomes more hilly and rocky. The sandstone hills are orange/black colours.They loook like a odd shaped beehive(a smaller version I guess of the Bungle Bungles, not seen them yet but going by pictures they look similiar in colour) <br>As you drive in to Kununurra you pass the entrance to Lake Argyle/Ord dam and then you ...

... The temperature was just a little cooler by 5pm so it was really nice to relax with a nice cold glass of wine/beer and listen to the live music on offer.  We are a little 'caravan lagged' as of course we have had to put our watches back 1.5 hours. So it gets light earlier in the morning and gets darker earlier than we have been used to.<br><br> 12 August 2009<br><br>Yesterday we did a little sightseeing around Kununurra.  We went to Hidden Valley in the ...

... The guy was a regular customer at the Bunnings Store that we worked at in Redcliffe, and they also lived only a few blocks from where we used to live. This is a huge country, but you can travel to the other side and still run into someone from home!<br><br>Well that is all there is to report on for our short stay, and the last blog from W.A. Our next blog will come to you from somewhere in the N.T. &#8211; until then, farewell!

... on toast for breakfast (a tradition in our household), then we opened up our stockings (we left smelly sport socks out for Santa, which we pegged to our tent!), and then we sat under our mango Christmas tree (which we'd decorated with a pretty summer scarf and shiny birthday wrapping bows) to open our pressies. Nico got a 'Rummikup' board game and I received an 'Upwords' board game- just ...

... At the pub - a real country one (i.e no frills but heaps of atmosphere) we enjoy a beverage and barra &amp; chips for lunch, The Stanford&#8217;s meet us here and we discuss returning to join them for the fundraiser trivia night here on Friday night. <br><br>Greg is keen to watch a schoolboy football match back in Kununurra which begins at 2pm so we can&#8217;t linger any further at the Wyndham pub. We make it by quarter time and I drop him there and ...

... take in the scenery, seeing a huge number of flying foxes in a group of trees, sleeping upside down.<br><br>At our afternoon tea stop Ian and Craig caught up again. During the course of the last 7km&#8217;s Craig got his lure snagged in a tree. He yanked it so hard it ricocheted into his calf. The barb was pretty deep so the boys planned to push it all the way through his skin so they could cut it off. They foolishly thought I would volunteer to do this deed and when Greg ...

... at Hamelin Pool telegraph station (with the pretty cool stromatolites (they're older than the dinosaurs you know?) to do the Denham / Monkey Mia thing. We drew the line at paying exorbitant sums to feed fish to the dolphins but M enjoyed the fishing and the boys and I had a nice day at the beach although the swimmimg was a little nervous given the number of sharks, stingrays &amp; dugongs we could see from the lookout ...

... and night, lots of birds, we met some lovely people and nearly got lost in the bush. We went for a short sunset walk following a hand drawn mud map provided by the owner... after an hour we were starting to get worried that we were lost. The map wasn&#8217;t good to start with and since it had been drawn, a couple of burnoffs had occurred obscuring the path. We started running as it was getting dark, as the last thing you want to be doing is wandering around in the bush ...

... night and headed on to Kununurra.<br><br>The kids had a ball the first night playing in the mud. I don't think they've ever been so dirty!<br><br>We stopped for lunch and a swim at Palm Springs, just outside Halls Creek, on the second day and camped at Spring Creek that night.