'Wherarwee' in Oz: Log02-07 Bungle Bungles

Up early this morning, well, not really as we had to turn our clocks back 1 ½ hours, so it was up at the same time, it just showed different. Caught the bus to the airport at 8:15 & at the same time Liz went off to the markets.

Took off in a Cesna 207 that carried 7 plus the pilot, flew over Lake Argyle, so large it’s classed as an inland sea, 11 times more water than Sydney Harbour in the dry! Approx 72K’s long & 50K’s wide. The is also Kununura Diversion Dam which is used solely for irrigation. Currently 11,000 hectares under cultivation expected to increase to 45,000 hectares by 2020. There is so much water here it’s amazing, as are the house prices.

We flew the length of the lake & then into the Bungle Bungle Ranges, taking 1 ¼ hours. Having seen only the ‘beehives’ on TV I was amazed at the size & range of the Bungles. It is a huge area of hills of all shapes & sizes incorporated in a national park of some 900 square kilometers.

We put down at an airstrip in the park & then hopped on a 4WD bus into the ranges. The bus travelled for just over an hour before we stopped at Picanninni Creek where we walked along the creek bed & up to a lookout, on the way we stopped at the place where the ‘I still call Australia home’ add with all the children dressed in white was recorded. We then went to Cathedral Gorge for a packed lunch which we had carried with us.

Returning back out of the gorge we jumped back on the bus for the return trip. Had a cuppa & bickie while we waited for our plane & the return trip home which took us over the Argyle diamond mine.

After a very full day I arrived home around 5:30.

Liz also had a full day, first the markets, then some shopping before returning home.