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| Sunrise on Lake Argyle |
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| Room with a view :) |
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| Early visitor |
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| The damn |
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| Durack Homestead, the only house they've been able to move before the lake fill up |
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| Officially leaving Western Australia and Back to the Northern Territory |
Monday, May 25, 2015
Day 8
20.05
Day 7
19.05
Back to civilisation for the morning. We are going around the city of Kanunurra before heading to lake Argyle for a cruise and spending the night on one Island.
We went to the Zebra stone gallery, Sandalwood factory, the old access road crossing Ord river and Hoochery rum distillery.
Lake Argyle is the largest fresh water reservoir on the mainland. It's not a natural lake.
It use to be a valley where the Duracks settle their cattle station on the side of the Ord river.
Ord river is one of the fastest flowing river during wet season, the amount of water that flowed to the ocean everyday would be enough to supply Perth for 10 years. But during dry season, the area become desertic. The idea of building a damn was to help the farming of the land in Kununurra area. Stopping the water from flooding the land in wet season and having an irrigation system to water it during dry season. It took five years to built the damn, and they only used material coming from the area.
They built a power station too, providing electricity to Kununurra, Wyndham and Argyle Diamond mine.
They though it would take 15years to fill up the lake, but it took only 3. Which mean they've been able to save only one of the building from the cattle station when they wanted to relocate all of them.
Back to civilisation for the morning. We are going around the city of Kanunurra before heading to lake Argyle for a cruise and spending the night on one Island.
We went to the Zebra stone gallery, Sandalwood factory, the old access road crossing Ord river and Hoochery rum distillery.
Lake Argyle is the largest fresh water reservoir on the mainland. It's not a natural lake.
It use to be a valley where the Duracks settle their cattle station on the side of the Ord river.
Ord river is one of the fastest flowing river during wet season, the amount of water that flowed to the ocean everyday would be enough to supply Perth for 10 years. But during dry season, the area become desertic. The idea of building a damn was to help the farming of the land in Kununurra area. Stopping the water from flooding the land in wet season and having an irrigation system to water it during dry season. It took five years to built the damn, and they only used material coming from the area.
They built a power station too, providing electricity to Kununurra, Wyndham and Argyle Diamond mine.
They though it would take 15years to fill up the lake, but it took only 3. Which mean they've been able to save only one of the building from the cattle station when they wanted to relocate all of them.
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| Used to be the only way to get to the city from the west |
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| Lake Argyle |
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| The damn and power station, no cement was used to built it |
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| Rock jumping spot :) |
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| Rock Wallabies |
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| Fresh water crocodiles |
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| Our home for the night |
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| Sunset swim |
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| Silver cobbler for diner, thanks to Gary for catching it :) |
Day 6
18.05
Today we are exploring the Bungle Bungle, starting South in Piccaninny and then North at Echidna. It's quite amazing how the same range can be soo different depending on what part of it you are at.
Today we are exploring the Bungle Bungle, starting South in Piccaninny and then North at Echidna. It's quite amazing how the same range can be soo different depending on what part of it you are at.
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| Piccaninny |
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| Cathedral Gorge |
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| Piccaninny lookout |
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| Echidna |
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| Echidna chasm |
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| Osmand lookout |
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