Kunnunarra to lake argyle

The trip back from kalumbru saw us arriving just on tea time ..a meal ..chat and bed ..Ian was still not well so it was doctors for him the following morning whilst  I tried to get some of the dust out of the car ...ian was at the hospital for about 6 hours ..in the meantime i got the tyre replaced  so it was ready to go ...we planned to go down to lake arglye on the sunday we were heading off to the bungles on monday ...We spent friday and saturday cleaning our friends michael and nola were heading for the  Cairns saturday for the NT variety bash  so friday night  we enjoyed a feed of fish ( mackrel that Ian caught ) and a chatfest the next morning we said our goodbyes  went to the Pumphouse for breakfast

The Pumphouse

catfish by the dozen

kel at the hochery sampling the product not for me

We decided to go via the hochery  and the sandlewood factory on our way to lake argyle

the desert pea such a pretty flower  

landscape changes all the time 

mary durack 's house which was relocated to it's present location as it would have been under water !

small finches wee everywhere

she wrote quite a few novels "kings in grass castles" may be her best known work they have done a lot of work since we visited last

the coloured slate is only found in this part of the country and is very effective ...unfortunately the cain toad has also found it's way to the kimberly....they have toad bins where you can put them  didn't get this one ...too quick !

seaplane for tours landing

 

julie and anne at lake argyle it holds 30 times  sydney harbour

view from the dam wall

spied amongst the rocks near the wall ( rock wallaby )

it is a big body of water

another sunset  and the boab tree sunset  i'll keep tryin to get the best photo

it's catch up time getting the blog up to date next one  we are off to the bungles until then !!!!