We're back, for a week

"Hello Bailey"

Well we finally returned to civilization (and I use that word very loosely) here in Kununurra, WA. We arrived in this afternoon after spending the last 6 days out at Lake Argyle, but before that I need to bring you up to date on where we've been. We left Victoria River and headed on down the road to Timber Creek (and I promise I am not making up these names) and decided that we would stick around for a couple of days. Day one we took off to the Johnson Gorge and both of us were eagerly looking forward to a good long walk among spectacular scenery, unfortunately the dam gorge is soooooooo big that they built a road through it and its all done in the car. Pretty but not grand. Day 2 was off to the Limestone Gorge which was fantastic. We walked around Tufda dams (1600 years old and only grow .16mm per year), along calcium flows that go for miles, climbing over stromalyte reefs fossils that predate animals and through baob forests, but I have to say the bloody road in and out was a bitch, more on that later. That night we headed off on yet another river trip and the next pic is a result of that.

That night a 4wd bus tour arrived at the camp and surprise surprise a couple of lost Sydney queens trying to put up a tent. Much amusement to all watching. We finally introduced ourselves and this was their first day and they had left Syd on an early morning flight, arrived in Darwin and straight onto a bus and driven to Timber Creek without seeing anything other than what went past their window. FOOLS.

The next morning we were up bright and early and looking forward to moving on to Keep River. The packing went really well and we were ready to hitch Miss Guided up when Ron started waving his arms in the air !!! ( now this could mean anything from i need a toilet stop to in coming missiles) but unfortunately this time it was RT, we had a flat. Picture it, 2 poofs, butch park, flat tyre - Oh dear, thank god for our years at Budget. After chatting up the mechanic (NO HANS NOT THAT WAY) and getting him to repair the tyre we were on our way.

"Keep River" National Park is truly stunning. In one of the books it was described as the "best kept secret in NT" and it is. It is like a mini Bungle Bungles without the tourists. We rough camped for two nights and did both the walks and it was breath taking. I will post some pics later.

From there it was off to Lake Argyle, which is 18 times the size of Syd. Harbour and a wonderful place to kick back and relax, but absolutely no communication of any description.