After a gruelling 500 kms, we made it to the border where we had to relinquish our honey, a few spuds and a bit of salad and we were into Western Australia. We were stopped for a while on the road while a water truck tried to control a bush fire (not sure how many of these fires are controlled burn offs or whether they are just bushfires...but there is a lot of them).
We made it to where once again we were met with the McCallums and the Elliotts. For people who complained we were going to quick they seem to be a lot of places before us!
We found Kununurra to be the hottest place we had visited so far...and the time difference (1 1/2 hours further behind...now 2 hours behind Melbourne time) threw the kids out. The sun is now up at 5.30am which means so is much of the caravan park (including our kids). I can't believe some people think it is acceptable to just chat and laugh at 5am without considering that we have little people sleeping.
We went out to Ivanhoe crossing where I threw a few lures around (once again without success). I did lose a lure right near the bank and even though I could see the branch it was stuck to on a metre and a half away in shallow water, I decided to leave it for the crocs who were lurking just below the surface.
The flights over Lake Argyle were a bit rich for our blood (and I think Mel is eyeing off an Argyle diamond in town) so we did the drive around the Lake which is between 20-40 times the size of Sydney harbour (depending on season). It was impressive with picturesque views, but I couldn't help thinking of Lake Eildon when we were driving over the wall. We did tell Charlotte that the sparkles on the water were diamonds from the mine (before we left she was hoping to visit Lake Argyle and fill her bucket up with diamonds.... so was her mother).
We loaded up the new Pod and did some final preparations for our first camping leg of our trip which will commence when we head down the Gibb River Road to Home Valley Station and El Questro.
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