Steve was
really keen to go for a fish and try and catch a Barramundi… He had given us
fair warning that he wanted to do this Friday morning, as he didn’t want to be
out at Ivanhoe Crossing on the weekend when all the locals were there. Ian wanted to stay home and catch up on
writing some postcards, and Kathy and I were keen to do a heap of washing
whilst we had few washing machines to wash with. We wanted to do all our sheets, towels, doona
covers and clothes, so I think between us we had about five loads to do. Staying here has saved us a heap of money on
washing…
I was a
little nervous about Steve going out fishing on his own in croc infested
country, but he assured me he would be fine and I could ring him every half
hour or so and he would answer the phone and if he was right in the middle of
dragging in the big one would ring me back.
He also assured us that he would be home by lunch time as we still had
things we wanted to see that afternoon in Kununurra itself.
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| Happy Chappy |
I was
surprised when he arrived home a little after 11am, as I really didn’t expect
him home till lunch time. He walked in
with a smile from ear to ear so I figured he had had a very good morning…
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| Showing Ian and Kathy his catch |
In two hours
he had landed four big barramundi fish, although he only kept one as we have no
cold fridge space to store too much. He
was actually the talk of the caravan park as quite a few people saw me taking
photos of him with his fish. The guys
camping on either sides of us, headed out to Ivanhoe crossing that afternoon
and the following morning in the hope of landing a big one also, but they had
no success. Guess what we were going to have for dinner
that night.
By the time
Steve had gutted and filleted the fish, and washed the car it was after
lunch. We had really wanted to go out
and check out the Zebra Rock Art Gallery.
Zebra Rock can only be found in this part of the world, and some of the
patterns in it are really quite stunning…
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| A visit to the Zebra Rock Gallery |
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| Zebra Rock - the Kimberley's is the only place in the world it can be found. |
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| Amazing patterns in the rock |
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| Zebra Rock Jewellery |
We really
didn’t go out there with any intention of buying anything, but rather just to
see, but in the end, we ended up buying the girls a necklace each made with the
zebra rock, and then Steve bought a beautiful pair of silver and gold boab tree
earrings for me for my birthday.
Something to remind me of the wonderful holiday we have all shared in
this part of the country.
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| Buying a few gifts. |
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| Showing us some of the exquisite zebra rock. |
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| Love it |
The afternoon
was fast drawing to a close and we still hadn’t got to Mirimi National Park
yet. This national park is right in the
heart of Kununurra and is little a mini bungle bungles. Just stunning, and the walks are well signed
with boardwalks to walk along. I went
for a short walk about the plant board walk and found the sign boards really
interesting to read, especially with the plant knowledge and how the Aboriginal
people used these plants.
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| Mirima National Park is right in Kununurra |
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| They call them the mini Bungle Bungles |
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| The moon had already started to come up by the time we got there... |
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| You can see the moon above these mini Bungle Bungles. |
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| Ian and Kathy climbing up to the lookout to see the sunset |
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| Mini Bungle Bungles |
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| Looking down on the Mini Bungles Bungles |
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| More of those awesome mini Bungle Bungles.. |
Steve,
headed up to the look out to take some photos of the sun setting. Ian and Kathy followed him up, and the views
were superb. They managed to get some
photos of rocks that really did look like the Bungle Bungles. They were massive, I can’t begin to imagine what the real Bungle
Bungles must look like if these were the mini ones…
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| Sunset in Kununurra |
By the time
we left, the sun had set, so it was home to have dinner.
On the way back to the car, Steve took the loop walk past a lot of the signed plants, and came across a colony of these little frogs.
Steve had to cook the fish for us for dinner,
and I have to say, there is nothing like
fresh Barra, grilled on the BBQ, it just melted in our mouth.
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| Cooking up the Barra for dinner |
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| He cooked it to perfection - mouth watering.. |
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| still a happy chappy |
Tomorrow is our
last day in Kununurra and we plan to head up to Wyndham and check out the five
rivers lookout. We want to get away
early, so that we can see a few other things as well, and then get back before
the shops close so that we can stock up on a few staples before heading off
bush for a few days…
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