Blogs from Kununurra, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania - page 12

KUNUNURRA. Moving on from Broome, we traveled over 900km heading towards Kununurra. We once again referred to our trusty travel companion, the Camps 5 book. All free overnight camping areas are listed in this book and there are details of the facilities provided on each site. Our main concern is that we can take our dogs there and that the camp site is away from the main road, as the huge 4 sectioned roadtrains make a mighty noise as they travel all through the night. It is good to save a few dollars this way but most of the sites are very dusty and our poor dogs need a bath urgently when we arrive at the next proper caravan site. It is amazing how popular these sites are and are usually full by about 5pm each ... read more

DAY 221 Today is a date I never forget, today 29 Years ago I started my electrical apprenticeship, with N.G.Bailey and company Ltd in Birmingham England, and I can remember being taken by my Mum and Dads next door neighbour, Don, in his MGB roadster, to the Landrover plant in Solihull and the company was working on the new Range Rover assembly plant, and never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I would be reminiscing 29 years later the other side of the world, but I am. We again were packing up today as we didn’t really have any intention of staying over in Kununurra tonight as there is nothing really to see or do, the only thing it did allow us to do was to stock up on provisions, pick up some ... read more

Distance traveled 3216km/4060km(79%).Leaving Fitzroy River Lodge early meant that we were once again on the road just after sunrise and as good as the sunsets are,there’s plenty to enthuse about the sun slowly lifting on a distant horizon and then gradually filtering it’s life giving,golden rays across the flat plains.The mystical and majestic boabs standing tall add their own special beauty.Joining the Great Northern Highway we spotted a fellow early traveler and we opted to guess/spot the next car.Sounds like a game for seriously bored kids but background to this is simple……many of the caravans,trailers and boats being pulled around Australia are attached to 4WD vehicles.An armada of Land Cruisers,Prado’s,Pajero’s and a variety of other 4WD models.If you guess any of the first three you have a pretty good chance of being correct.After 45 minutes we ... read more

Sep 21 Howard Springs Big4. Good caravan park and has Net4, Big4 internet access. Spent in Darwin CBD. Took in the Smith Mall and all its souvenir shops. Very nice area for shopping, if one was so inclined. Had a bit of a walk along the Esplanade. Really nice, well kept area for walking near the ocean. Low tide so the water was out pretty far. We had planned on dipping our toes in the ocean, but didn’t manage!! Sun Princess ocean liner was in port. Big, big ship. Apparently the Darwin Port is about 2.5 times bigger than Sydney, so we did a harbour tour. Was a dinner/sunset tour. Good food, good sailing vessel (Cape Adieu) and a good time. BYO, which was good price wise. Sorry we didn’t get to any other attractions in ... read more

We've spent the last couple of days in Kununurra, which is in the eastern part of the Kimberley region. The rest of the Kimberley isn't as accessible without a car and tours are expensive. On Monday morning we started to walk down to the celebrity tree park by the lagoon, where celebrities have planted trees. It's only about a kilometre to the park but it's so hot here we had to stop before we got there and lie under a tree for a while and then go and sit in a cafe for an hour or two because we both felt sick. We finally got to the park in the afternoon and saw Rolf Harris' tree and Princess Anne's, we didn't recognise any of the other names. The lagoon is gorgeous, freshwater crocs live there but ... read more