Pancakes for breakfast this morning, gosh its a tough life! We are heading to Kununura so passing into Western Australia. We had to get rid of all our fruit and vegetables and had been told not to take honey into WA or at least declare it. So we boiled up our potatoes because pre cooked veg was ok, we cut up our tomatoes and added a salad dressing.
We stopped at Victoria River roadhouse and had a look at their campsite for future reference, it looked nice and the scenery around there was brilliant. We took the chance to refuel and grab a coffee. This was only up the road from our stop last night.
Once again the scenery as we drove was just brilliant it changes with every turn. I was hanging out of the car window taking photos if we stopped every time I wanted to take a photo we would never get anywhere. We did however stop at a place of interest and took the opportunity to get a photo of all three vans together.
Our next rest stop was at Timber creek, we went to the bakery (for Joy of course) and then headed down to have a look at a boat ramp where we stopped for lunch. There was evidence of crocodiles everywhere with marks on the banks of the river, a crocodile trap, a sign saying, “large crocodile spotted at ramp today” but we did not see any!
Driving over in to Western Australia we had to stop and have caravan fridge/food inspected, they took our honey off of us and luckily everything else was ok to take through. So many Boab trees in this area and the scenery continued to change.
We arrived in Kununurra and booked in to Lakeside camp site. I remember this one, Jock and I stayed here many years ago when travelling from Perth to Darwin. It had not changed much and we got a nice site overlooking the lake.
We stayed two nights to catch up on the usual domestic stuff and we did a day of exploring the area. We found the ord river crossing and decided we would give it a go, my very first water crossing of this trip, I had better get used to it as I have been told there are a few on the Gibb River road. After the initial anxiety of the crossing it really was quite exhilarating. We went to the Zebra rock gallery, where I purchased a lovely little vase, couldn’t afford much else as it was very expensive.
There were a couple of locals outside the supermarket selling Boab nuts that they had carved. I couldn’t resist, the idea of buying local craft from the ones who had carved them. If you buy them in the shops they are around $100 but mine was $20 and although the ones from the shops are very intricate I love mine.
We explored a rocky area that the locals nickname, “little Bungles”. It was a lovely drive around there I could not stop taking photos, I wonder how many photos I will have taken by the end of this trip if this is how I am now.
Douglas's Downunder 