Mercure Inn Kununurra

... on the Sunday morning at the Catholic Church. It was ok &#8211; the priest has only been there for 3 weeks and was still a little nervous. His sermon was not really much to listen to though, and he was a little hard to understand because he was Asian.<br><br>After church, we went and got some groceries and the permits we needed. In the afternoon, we went to the pool again and then had BLTs for dinner&#8230; mmm!<br><br><br>

While we were at the Argyle Homestead, Lake Argyle, we noticed a strange nest under some bushes. When we had a closer look we realised that there was a bird in it. It was a male Great Bowerbird, and it wasn't a nest but a bower. The bowerbird was grey and brown with a blotch of ...

... herds overland from Coopers Creek in Queensland, a distance of 4828km. Along with the station Patrick also founded a pasturalist dynasty which lasted until the station was flooded in 1972. <br><br>Most of the station is now under 20 metres of water, but the homestead was shifted before the inundation and now exists above the water line as a small house museum full of memorabilia and old photographs. A ...

... the Arnolds (Friends from school)! They had extended there holiday. Then we moved on to the EL Questro George. We had to go threw 2 deep river crossings. That was fun. The walk was hard because you had to climb over giant bolders and swim some parts to get to the end. The walk was 6.8kms! The falls at the end wasn't as big as we ...

To make up for my Bungle-Puking-Incident we went hiking in the beautiful Mirima National Park, which was located just at the back of our campsite. We accessed it form the campsite and withing a 50m walk, we were in amongst the towering grey and orange stripped rounded cliffs, which look very similar to the Bungles.<br> We had a great afternoon scrabbling up rocks and walking to the tops of some of the parks trails, where there were ...

Hiya,<br><br>Believe it or not, we have made it to Kununurra, our last port of call in W.A. before skipping over the border to the 'Top End'. It&#8217;s unfortunate though that our stay didn&#8217;t get off to a great start due to the scurrying around we had to do to find a place in a caravan park. After being turned away from four parks (having a heated exchange at one) our luck finally changed, or so we thought, and we were ...

... to the best restaurant in town - the Pumphouse Restaurant, a still working Pumphouse where you can sit on the verandah and have lunch and feed the hundreds of catfish in the water. <br><br>We just finished off the arvo with a sleep and a swim in the pool - I know, hard life isnt it :)<br><br>Off to Katherine and the Northern Territory tomorrow, seems like we have been in WA for years ...

... and the cake was eaten we left for the third and final event of the festival, the street party.<br><br>Greg and I had heard an interview on the local radio station during the drive into Kununurra, it featured a band called Blue Shaddie. They performed live in the studio and had us all bouncing around in the car loving their self taught sounds. When we found they would be the headline act at the street party we were excited to be able to see them. <br><br>There were heaps of ...

... our steps - not an easy descent.<br><br>We got back to camp and had a little time to get ready, before the bus arrived to collect us.<br>The bus picked up a few more people and then headed out of town. The bus trip is about 70km and the driver talked all the way - mostly about nothing. We then arrived at the Lake Argyle resort and transferred to the cruise boat. The cruise lasted about 2hrs. The lake is huge and even after cruising ...

Gibb River Road<br><br>23 May to 5 June<br><br>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 &#8211; two spare tires, compressor, jumper leads, recovery gear, snatch strap etc.etc. We had heard a lot of stories about how rough the road is, how you need to be well prepared with jerry cans of fuel, water etc. <br><br ...