Kununurra and Wyndham

Ivanhoe Crossing at Kununurra - closed today

A bush in Mirimar National Park

Mirimar National Park known as the mini Bungle Bungles

Charlie at the entrance of The Hoochery

The Hoochery - WA's oldest legal distillery

Doing my titanic thing at the lookout overlooking Kununurra

One of the many Boab trees at Parrys Creek Farm

View from the Five Rivers Lookout at Wyndham

The big croc at Wyndham and we've got some cute little friends

Dreamtime statues at Wyndham

Charlie watching an aboriginal man carve a boab nut - they look brilliant

Billabong at Parrys Creek Farm

Well we spent some time in Kununurra and had a good look round and also did the flight over the Bungle Bungles from here but that will be the subject of another blog.  We found Kununurra a nice little town and we stayed in a caravan park which backed right onto the Mirimar National Park which has been referred to as the mini Bungle Bungles.  We did an early morning walk and it was pretty.  We did a bit of sight seeing and went down to the Ivanhoe Crossing which was the original old road to Wyndham but couldn't get across as the water was running very fast and it was closed.  We also went to the Sandalwood Factory which was interesting.  It is the world's largest supplier of sandalwood oil to leading fragrance houses of Europe and America.  There was an interesting video about the history of sandalwood from soil to oil.  We also visited the Hoochery distillery which is the oldest legal still in WA and had a few test tastings there - HIC!!

From Kununurra we decided to go and visit Wyndham which is WA's top most town and we stayed at Parrys Creek Farm which  was a perfect peaceful getaway situated in the middle of Parry Lagoons Nature Reserve and is listed by "Ramsar" as a Wetland of International Importance (I read that somewhere!!!).  Its a bird lovers paradise.  Charlie did some fishing in the billabong and caught lots of fish but they were only small but it kept him out of trouble for the afternoon. at least.

We also visited the Dreamtime Statues which are a monument to the indigenous heritage of the region.  Then onto the Five Rivers Lookout which was just amazing.  This lookout is at the summit of the Bastion Range, 350 metres above sea level and it is the vantage point where the Ord, Forrest, King, Durack and Pentecost Rivers enter the Cambridge Gulf.  It truly took our breath away as we climbed the hill not expecting to see anything so spectacular.  After this we had a lovely morning tea in a little hidden gem of a cafe and proceeded into the great metropolis of Wyndham.

We saw the big croc and attracted some cute little friends who were eager to show us their orange hands as they had been hand painting and to tell us about the story of the big crocodile.  We also met some aboriginal people who showed us how they were carving the boab nuts which they then sell to the tourists.  The finished product is beautiful.  Very impressed.

Well that's all for now so its Adieu from The Wandering 2s.