To Broome and Back!: Day 52. Timber Creek to Kununurra. 02/07/2015

Today we got away to a flyer because we had not unhitched Calinda overnight. A lovely warm sunny morning for our journey forward to Kununurra, a distance of about 225 kms on the Victoria Highway. The road condition was not as good as we have been experiencing but the scenery was lovely so our trip was very enjoyable. We started to see a great number of Boab trees of all shapes and sizes. The escarpments were large, varied and in some places were quite close to the highway. John commented that one of the formations reminded him of Ayers Rock (Uluru). A few hills had Calinda slowing us down a little but John overtook 3 other caravans and that is some sort of record for us.
Our park here in Kununurra is just off the highway and not far from the town centre and lies on the edge of Lily Creek Lagoon overlooking the spectacular Sleeping Buddha rock formation. It is a very lovely setting and it reminded us of our site at Lake Fyans (Victoria) with the Grampians in the background.
After lunch we realised that we had to change our watches to W.A. time so we had actually eaten quite early in the day! It was then necessary for us to do some shopping as the fridge was bare because we had made certain there would be no fruit and vegetables that could be confiscated by the "Fruit and Vegies Nazis" at the border control.
We had a quick drive around the township to familiarise ourselves and to check on the workshop that we will be servicing the Prado tomorrow. We also booked a two night stay at the Bungle Bungles Caravan Park and organised a full day tour that will take us right through the Bungle Bungles. Continuing on, just a short distance out of town we came upon the Mirima National Park that has what is known as the mini Bungle Bungles. We did the beginning of a walk around the area but as we were unprepared and did not have suitable footwear, we decided that we will return to do the walks early another day as it looks very interesting.
Returned to the caravan park to spend a little time down at the waters edge of Lily Creek Lagoon to watch the moon rise over the waters, ( it gets dark here very early), the cruise boats returning to the landings and experience the sight of thousands and thousands of bats flying over the waters and hopefully heading to another area and not our caravan park. There are of course freshwater crocodiles in the lagoon, and even though there were kayaks for hire at the waters edge we will not be tempted to go out on the water in anything smaller than the Queen Mary.