Kimberleys Trip 2 June 2019

It was much warmer than yesterday (5oC warmer), but unfortunately it meant the flies were up earlier too. Darryl went for a walk up to a big pool that the locals had told him about, while I made a breakfast cuppa, and we saw several wallabies coming down for water. 

Mullet feeding

There were plenty of budgerigahs and galahs along the way, and then we came to Victoria River Downs station. Their yards were filled with lots of white Brahman's, quite a few horses and 1000's of Corella's. 

It was interesting to see how many helicopters they had for mustering. 

We had several Wallabys crossing the road in front of us, before arriving at Jasper Gorge, which was stunning. We stopped for morning tea at the picnic area, which had big pools of water. 

The drive through the gorge with spectacular red escarpments, Livistonia palms, Native Bauhinia, Pandanus was spectacular. Red-tailed black cockatoos were eating seeds of one of the trees. 

Another Plains turkey was just looking around, as they do, and there was some huge waterbird flying. We also passed some very interesting mud-stone hill formations. 

Oh...if only they'd warned us at the beginning rather than at the end of the road!

Turning back onto the bitumen

We arrived at Timber Creek back on the Victoria Highway for lunch and a fuel-up, and to be entertained by the Bower Birds.

Now we were back in Boab country with these quirky trees sporting all sorts of wonderful shapes and sizes. 

A magnificent Boab tree

And, along the road little purple paper daisies. 

Darryl stashed his honey at Gregory'sTree, (as you are not allowed to take honey into Western Australia), and I set a GPS point so we could collect it on the way back. 

There were pleanty more huge boabs as we got closer to the border, and a lot of cyclists camping at Saddle Creek. 

We crossed the border at 4:30 NT Time - 3pm WA time. This was the first time to WA for both of us.

At quarrantine we lost our home-grown tumeric, despite me being told on the phone that it was ok, (as it was related to Ginger, which is allowed), and had to cut the tops & tails off the onions. 

We arrived at Kununarra and booked into Lakeside Caravan Park for a couple of days, in a large spot under a Boab tree. 

The sunset over the lake was wonderful, and all the birds, (Fire-kites, Purple Moorhens, Zebra finches, Crimson finches, ducks, & Jacanas), kept us entertained while we had a glass of wine. Two neighbouring vans are from Rocky! We really enjoyed having hot showers.