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Thursday 2 nd May , KununurraG’Day Lake KununurraCost $45.00 per night with membershipRated by us 6/10
Mileage 18949 travelled 0Slow and lazy start to the day, planned trip out to Wyndam and whatever else we can see on the way.You can not even start to show the scale and expanse of the scenery. The hills and roads go on for ever and change all the time as you drive along, the sun changes the colours and the shadows change the shapes, a moving landscape,The creeks are almost all full of water up here after the big wet, they have such strange names, Dead Horse Creek, Black Flag Creek, Maggies Creek to name but a few, you have to wonder by who and why they were so named. Watching for any brown tourist signs we came across The Grotto, a natural swimming hole which has water all year round. The steps down to the water were 144 and very steep, we decided it was not a good idea, we spoke with a guy who had just returned and he said it was OK but hard work getting up and he was a young fellow, glad we didn't venture down,
feeling old!!!.Heading on we came to Maggies Valley, named after Maggie Nicholson, she was the first person to drive a motor vehicle into the valley in the 1920’s to collect birds which were shipped all over the world. The valley is vast and magnificent no wonder she wanted to come here.We drive on to the port town of Wyndam, it is very old and run down. The abattoir which gave most of the local people employment unfortunately was closed in 1986. We walked out onto the fishing jetty and spoke with a local lady called Natalie. She was waiting for her son to return from a stint at sea on the local Rangers boat. Apparently the ocean off Wyndam is littered with illegal Indonesian fisherman, the coast guard do nothing so the local rangers go out in whatever boats they can and report any boats they see, to the coastguard in the hope that they will intercept them, which does not always happen. It was really nice to chat to a local and she told us about the fishing from the jetty apparently they get lots of Barramundi, Shark, Salmon and many more. There is a competition on this week
end for the biggest Barramundi to be caught paying up to five thousand dollars.The port exports small amounts of Iron Ore but the quantities minor.We found a very well set out museum which had some very interesting and enlightening displays with lots of old photographs.Whilst swimming yesterday I had been told by a lady that we had to visit the Croc Cafe & Bakery. As it was on lunch time we called in, it was amazing, they had Crocodile Pies, Barramundi Pies and lots of other different pies. G was not keen but I had a Lemon Pepper Barramundi Pie and it was delicious, the chips we got to accompany it were hot and crisp, well worth a visit G enjoyed his lamington, even though he refused a pie.A slow drive back to camp to relax for the afternoon.Looks like the pesky flies are out again tonight so we retreated early to bed again, getting like old people heheh.
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