Saturday 16th June 2018
Well we left Lake Argyle reasonably early as we needed to go to Kununurra to pick up the Clutch Slave Cylinder from the mechanic. That done and jerry can for our next adventure bought, I am now sitting in the car whilst David does the job. Lucky he is so clever. Well almost, he has lost a bolt in the grass, so he is putting it together with one bolt and will move the car to try and find it later, even putting glasses on didn’t help.
I went for a walk to the service station across the road and there is a queue to wash your car. They all look like Gibb River Rd travellers. We might wait till after the Tanami Desert Road to do that. The red dust is like talcum powder and is in every little gap in the car.
Found the bolt, car fixed. I couldn’t get a hairdresser appointment so soldier on we must.
After doing some groceries. Yay, fresh veggies again we had a change of plan. It was only 3pm and Bungle Bungle Caravan Park was about 2.5 hours away so we decided to go for it. Get us ahead a day. At 5.15pm when we still had 30mins to go, we questioned that decision as there was cattle, horses and kangaroos on the side of the road causing havoc. One of the reasons we had been getting to our camp site before dark. This was just a friendly reminder to go back to that way again. Also, we hate choosing a camp site in the dark when they are not numbered, which invariably the unpowered sites are not.
Anyway, we have arrived safely, have eaten and are getting organised for our next adventure in the Bungle Bungle (Purnululu) National Park tomorrow.
We will be out of range for a couple of days again.
Really looking forward to some more hiking. Maybe an overnight one as well.
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- Our roadside mechanic stop at Kununurra. We are across the road from Auto Pro in case he needs more parts or breaks something.
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- The number of times David has been under the car on this trip he has been saying things like. “Maybe we should have bought that car from Newcastle before we left”.
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- At least we were parked under a tree, on some dead grass.
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- The grass turned out to be a disadvantage when he lost a bolt but luckily after about 10 minutes searching, it was found. Thank Goodness!! He is smiling now.
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- The little black picnic blanket DB never wants to bring has come in handy for car work, otherwise he would have been lying in red dust or tough dead grass.
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- A last minute tweak. And we are up and running again. The advantages of travelling with a mechanic. Mind you – just like a builder’s house is only finished when it is time to sell, a mechanic’s car is only repaired when it finally breaks. The life story of David Broadbent.
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- Travelling along the road from Kununurra to Bungle Bungle Caravan Park, the scenery was beautiful. Big red mountain ranges. Not such a great picture captured from the moving car but we didn’t really have time to stop tonight.