Kununurra and Wyndham 08 September 2013

After a second afternoon of sand flies and another evening of bright, bright stars we departed Keep River on Saturday morning and hied off to Kununurra WA. Of course we had to go through the obligatory fruit and veg (and honey, seeds, and some nuts) gestapo station at the border, but the designated inquisitor was quite nice about it all and we only had to sacrifice a couple of apples, some sliced zucchini and a diced avocado.

 As luck would have it, it was market day in Kununurra which allowed us to restock a lot of our fruit and veg (coincidence or conspiracy???). Picked up the rest at the supermarket then headed off to the Lakeside caravan park for a few days stay. Geez it gets dark early here! with the two hours knocked off the clock for WA time it is reminiscent of Melbourne in winter (apart from the winter bit of course) with sunset around 5:30PM.
Woke up at 06:00 (going to take some time to adjust the body clock) to a new Prime Minister. Old budgie smugglers himself. Same same but different....
Cooked breakfast today, which was very nice, then off to Wyndham for a sticky beak. First stop was for fuel (almost always is) then the Ivanhoe Cafe for a mango smoothie - very good, but made us both wish we had eaten a little less breakfast :)
Our luck was out as Ivanhoe Crossing was closed with a lot of very fast moving water pouring over the causeway, so we had to forego the scenic rout to Wyndham and double back to the highway instead.








What can we say about Wyndham? It's got the Big Croc. It's got a port. Did I mention the Big Croc???? All in all the place reminds me of Coober Pedy. I don't feel any urge to ever go there again either.

At least there are no cyclones at the moment.

Wyndham in a nutshell

Prado Spotto all tied up at 169 each.