We got going early from Larrawa Station, almost wishing we could stay another night. Kununurra awaits though and we stopped in Halls Creek to top up with provisions and found this place to be very well serviced with 2 small supermarkets and butcher and a bakery. Not to mention the huge aquatic centre that is being built across the road.
We ate our lunch in the shade at Doon Doon Station and made it to Kununurra mid afternoon. It is nice to be back at Ivanhoe Caravan Park and it lovely amenities and pool. Next day we visited the Zebra Rock Museum and shop and tried to make sense of how this beautiful stone was made millions of years ago. The highlight of this visit was nothing to so with stone however. The shop keeps a supply of bread so that visitors can feed the fish in the lake. Well, it was if these catfish had never seen food before and the turtles got in on the act too! Big and small, they all clambered over each other for a bit of the meagre supply of bread that we had with us. A couple of these (very ugly in my opinion) critters was over 1 metre in length. We also go sprayed and squirted by something in the water. We found out later that these are Archer Fish that were spitting at us.
Seeing as we were on the western side of the diversion bridge dam, we decided to take a drive out to Wyndham. 100km seems like a drive up the road when you have been doing 600km days and we stopped off at a spot called the Grotto on the way. 140 steps down into an “idyllic sheltered waterhole” seem ok, but to try it on a blisteringly hot day, unprepared to swim and in thongs well, not such a good idea. That and the fact that I wanted to rename it the “Grotty”. We left, mildly disappointed.
Wyndham itself is a surprisingly large town, a mix of old, new and indigenous squalor all mixed in together. Abandoned houses and shops alongside time tested business and a new café made for quite a good afternoon. The five rivers lookout was totally awesome and made even better by the approach of a long time local gentleman who was the best tour guide we could have hoped for. He showed and named all the rivers that we could see from the lookout and even gave us a brief history of the area. We spent a good 30 minutes up there discussing the area and asking questions of him. As a contrast, we found a new modern café, called the 5 Rivers Café and had lunch there in the cool comfort of their dining area. For some inexplicable reason, diesel is about 30 cents cheaper per litre in Wyndham than Kununurra, so we felt that we had a win all round!
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