Friday 15th June 2018
David woke early this morning but I just could not wake up. After a little housekeeping we headed off on a walk to the Old River Gorge. This was supposed to be an hour and a half walk but we had made it to the lookout in just 20mins. So a lot shorter than we expected.
After this we had a chat with our new neighbours, some European backpacker girls, Miss Italy 25, Miss France 21 and Miss Germany 19. They had met in Perth and were travelling in a $2000 Falcon. They had been having an amazing adventure in Australia over the last 9 months. They are at the tail end of Miss Italy and Miss France are at the tail end of their adventure and Miss Germany is heading to Darwin to find work as her money is running low. They are so amazing and very friendly. We then chatted with some other people we had seen at El Questro. By this time it was now 10.45 as we set out on our next walk to The Bluff. This was to be 2.5 hours so we will see how long it takes. It was quite warm again today even though there was a little breeze which unfortunately affected our photos. The lookout at the bluff looked straight down Lake Argyle which is 10 times the size of Sydney Harbour. Amazing views.
After we walked back it was now 12.30ish and very warm, we headed straight to the pool where we met some more friends from El Questro and made some new ones. We had a lovely relax by the pool for about an hour, then headed back to camp for lunch and a bit more relaxing and some reading.
About 3pm we went for a drive to the Water Tank lookout, then the Dam Wall and then to Pannikan Bay Lookout for sunset. The track to Pannikan Bay was a 4WD track with some nasty, sharp rocks which we managed skilfully to avoid Well done DB! The sunset was beautiful but unfortunately it was very windy and the clouds rolled in, which is a first for a very long time. We even had a little rain. Not much but a little. We met two families from Newcastle at the lookout who are travelling for 4 months. It is amazing how many families we have seen on this adventure who were travelling for over 3 months. When my kids were that age we did well just to get to the Gold Coast for a couple of weeks. Wow how things have changed since then.
Then back to camp for dinner and bed. We had another chat with our neighbours before bed. They were very interesting to chat with and it is nice to share theirs and our journeys.
FYI. They turnover 100 campsites a day at this caravan park and it starts at 7.30am. Blows us away how many are on the road. Amazing.
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- Another shot of the infinity pool looking out over Lake Argyle this morning.
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- Our view from our breakfast table this morning. It is getting pretty tough to endure these views. Hehehe!!
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- View from the Ord River Gorge Lookout towards the dam wall and Lake Argyle
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- Helicopter awaiting today’s passengers
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- Rustic sign to the Homestead or the Bluff
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- Heading to the Bluff lookout
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- View catamaran and a couple of boats looking towards the dam from the Bluff Lookout
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- Lake Argyle from the Bluff lookout
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- Walking back to the caravan park from the Bluff. Checkout the clouds, we haven’t seen any of those for a long while.
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- Walking through the Spinifex grass
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- Enjoying a refreshing swim after out very long hot walk.
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- View from the Water Tank Lookout
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- Looking over towards The Bluff
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- The Hydro Electric Power Station just below the dam wall.
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- Pannikan Bay Lookout. David decided it would be best to let down the tyres as it was very rocky on the way up and we didn’t need to puncture the tyres. Better safe than sorry.
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- View from the Pannikan Bay Lookout. See the rainbow.
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- The colours of the rocks changed as the light fades.
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- Magical views
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- As the rain comes down for a very short time. First time we have seen rain in a long time.
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- Love this new purchase we made at Broome. It was very windy tonight and we used to have trouble keeping the gas burners alight, but now we have no problem. The shields are fantastic.