WOW

It was sooooo hard to pick a pic for the blog. I decided on this one as it shows the Bungle "Beehives" as well as one of the gorges. When took the all day flight and Diamond package yesterday and what a day. To start Ron cancelled my credit cards, took my wallet and banished me to the back of the plane so that I couldn't get out without his noticing LOL. But truefully it was an amazing trip to the mine, the security is outrageous as you might imagine. It is so strict that if you drop something you are not allowed to pick it up, you must call security and a guard will be dispatched to do the picking up. You are not allowed into any of the buildings but instead you get a bus tour through the whole facility including the pit, crushers and past the 1 in 400 pile, this is the pile of rubble that has a hit rate for diamonds of one rock in every 400 (I want to ply in that sandpit).

From there it was back in the air and off to the Bungle Bungles. As you can see it is a wonderful sight. We have decided not to go there on this trip as it is a pretty rugged road in and then only very basic camp grounds and you can only access two or three places, so we will live with the memories of the flight.

Tomorrow we are off to El Questro on the "Gibb River Road", which is famous for killing all sorts of cars, trucks, vans, bikes and people. Hans asked awhile ago if we were doing all the road and we have debated the question for several months and decided not to. It is 750klms of absolutely torturous roads and you must carry at least two spares and spare petrol, there are no camping grounds, no shops, no petrol stations, just miles and miles of great scenery. So we are going to cheat - El Questro is about 100klms from the start of the road at this end so we will do 3 -4 days there and expect to be off the air, then we will come back here to Kununurra for a night to re stock and head off down the highway towards Fitzory Crossing where we will turn right and head on back to the GRR and do the last 150klms at the other end. WA is proving to be very difficult because of the huge distances between everything.