Back in Sydney

Well we are back in the big smoke (Sydney) have been for a couple of weeks been very busy unpacking and back at work for now.  Our next trip will be in a couple of years now to WA so we have to do some serious saving till then.

All good things come to and end unfortunately

31st September Mataranka – Barkly Homestead NT

Another early start as we have a long day today. We got away 7:30am
First stop Daly Water Hotel at 9:30am to have a look and some of us had a pie which they were really good. We were there for about 1hr just looking around as it was a very unusual place.
Not a lot in between places out here so a boring drive.







Stopped just north of Elliot for a toilet break and walk around the car.
At 1:00pm pulled up on the side of the road at Renner Springs for lunch.
We arrived at Three Ways at 2:45pm where Chris and Mary will leave us as they are going to Alice for a few days and then they will make there way home in a couple of weeks.
Everyone got some fuel as it is another 187ks to Barkly Homestead.
As it was so boring on this road we played eye spy between cars to fill in time.
That night we went to the pub for a $12 roast lamb dinner.

Some of the things hanging up in Daly Waters pub

30th August Kununurra -Mataranka NT

Very early start today as we loose 1 ½ hrs going over the boarder.
This is the start of the long drives home.
We had a stop at Timber Creek for morning tea.
Then at Katherine at 2;00pm for lunch. Quick stop into woolworths for extra supplies before heading on.







Arrived at Mataranka 3:30pm and met up with Carl who had his car fix today.
There were lots of bats in the trees but the pool was nice so in for a swim.
Getting darker later on this side of the boarder.

Mataranka Pools

29th August Kununurra

View from caravan park



Paul's B/day today.
This morning the boys got themselves ready by 6:00am to meet some guy out the front of the caravan park to go fishing. When the guy arrived he had to cancel as he had a death in the family.
Carl decided to leave early so he was gone by 6:00am and Ron and Jen were on there way by 7:00am. Now that only left 6 vehicles behind.

Pam was not well this morning been up most of the night.
Some of us went shopping at 8:30am to get some last minute things to take home. Meeting the boys in town at 10:00am but they did not listen and had to ring them to see where they were.
We set out to zebra rock to see what was there and it was very interesting. Had a drink and looked around the place for awhile some fed the fish.
Then out to the fruit loop first place was the salad bowl which we all had a mango ice cream which was extremely good.
Went to the distillery to have a look not much there.
On our way back to camp went to Mina Mirra National Park it was very hot but went for a short walk anyway.
Back tot camp for a cool off in the pool. The temp was 42 today.
That night we had fish and chips supposed to Barrimundi not sure though.

28th August Kununurra

Lake Argyle



This morning we had and easy morning as we had to be down town to pay for our cruise at 9:00am and after that we had free time until 11:00am so everyone did there own thing until then.
We all met up and went out to Lake Argyle for lunch and a look around. We sat in a really nice park to have our lunch. We made our way back to camp about 1:15pm.





Once back at camp everyone got ready to be picked up at 3:30pm.
We were all on the bus waiting for Roger who had decided to go to the bottle shop at the last minute and the bus waited for about 10 minutes.
We were on the cruise about 4:00pm which was really good and it was only us on the boat which was even better. The meal was very nice and lots of it.

BBQ Cruise

Toby driving BBQ Boat

27th August Elquestro – Kununurra

Most of us left early to walk Emma Gorge. Jen, Toby and Ron, Roger & Jill met us there as they did not want to do the walk. It was about a 1hr walk and very pretty and the swimming hole at the end was a bit cool but very nice. We got back from our walk about 10:00am and they were around the pool so we went in to cool off from the walk back.

Emma Gorge

Jack, Pam, Paul and I decided to go straight to Wyndham and the others took a scenic drive around the range which they really enjoyed. When we arrived in Wyndham we went to the lookout to see the five rivers which was amazing. We had baramundi and chips for lunch at the local cafe which was very good. After that we drove around to the port to have a look and to the croc farm but the tour only runs at 11:00am so we had missed it.

croc in main street

On our way out of Wyndham we passed the others going in so we kept going to Kununurra.
We arrived at Kununurra about 3:30pm and set up camp before the others arrived.
Pam and I went down town to find out a few things for the group.
When got back everyone was having happy hour so we filled them in and gave them maps of the town and other things to see.
Had an easy tea as it was very hot to cook.

26th August Elquestro

6 of us woke up really early to start the elquestro gorge walk by 6:30 as it was a 4-5hrs walk. It was not a hard walk very scenic and lots of things to see along the way. When we finally got to the end of the gorge after scrambling over rocks to find a beautiful pool with a waterfall just the thing to have a swim as it was getting very hot. We got back to the car about 10:30. We decided to go to the gorge were the others were (moonshine gorge) and when we did find them we went had a swim in the pool they were swimming and the boys started on the walk around the gorge. After a quick dip the I took the girls back to Elquestro and we went and had lunch at the shop and waited for the boys to get back.






Corrie out to dinner



When the boys got back we went for a drive to some lookouts and 4x4 wheel drive tracks. Back to camp as we were going to the restraint at 6:00pm for dinner which was very nice.
Ian McKinaly received the shackle tonight for sleeping in his chair.






Everyone out to dinner