We are not in Crystal Brook at all, but in Mallala which is not in the list of places on this travel site. There is a nice free camping site at the town oval where the only thing you need to pay for is to have a hot shower. This is an excellent idea for small towns because it draws travellers into the town where we spend money in their town. We were talking to another caravanner here last evening and we got to the where are you from bit and when we said Brinkworth he told us he had stayed in our little park in 2012. He also said that "some woman on a bike" came and advised him they were only supposed to be there 72 hours. He rang the council who said it ... read more

We are parked up in the Ivanhoe CP in Kununurra in an extremely small site. Thank heavens the one behind us was empty when we arrived because we could not have backed in there. Same Same for Shirley and Dave. With our van and annex deployed there is not enough room to park our car so it has to hang out onto the road. Rushed out on the morning of the 10th and did some shopping most especially to get lotto for Tuesday and Thursday so Mary, GMan and I can continue to dream of great things. At 10:30 am all four of us headed out to Lake Argyle area where we spent some time checking out the relocated Argyle homestead. It is far more sophistocated that when we last visited it 23 years ago, poshed ... read more

Believe it or not a blog without photos. 30th. We visited the Kimberley School of the Air, what an incredibly interesting experience. We had a guided tour of the facility and the school system was explained to us. We then piled into a studio and watched and listened in to a lesson for year 2/3's. Gone are the radio's. The teacher and students are all connected via satillite and the internet and use a program to interact. Everyone is seeing exactly the same thing and the teacher has put together lessons in powerpoint which is broadcast as they move through the learning experience. One comment by the teacher is that by introducing this technology which is only available to the students and not using the radio a community link has been lost. People used to listen ... read more

On 15thMay we went for a farewell dinner (roast and yummy ice cream for dessert) to Sue, Clive and Jens and determined we would meet for Christmas in a couple of years. It has been wonderful to catch up with the Bolvig side of my family again. The boys especially liked the dessert and playing with Molly the cat. JoJo the bird was not impressed. We left Kununurra on 16th May with our new windscreen in place and headed west towards the beginning of the Gibb River Road. The first thing we came across was the dam wall blocked off by a work crew and we had to wait to be able to cross. The actual wall is not very wide at all which surprised us. Once across we drove to the beginning of the Gibb ... read more

Late in the afternoon the day we arrived at Bitter Springs we went for a walk down to the springs and the surrounding vegetation. The area is very lush and pretty. The springs themselves are small but have been set up with areas where you can view the bottom if you choose not to swim. Apparently there are turtles on the bottom. The most noticeable things about the area is that the vegetation has not been degenerated by the sheer number of people who overrun the Mataranka thermal area and it has no fruit bats, hence no stench. Personally we were put off by the amount of algae along the edges of the springs themselves. That did not deter anyone else but us. When we went through Mataranka in 1990 it was smelly but lush and ... read more