More on Kununurra

Yesterday we went out to the Mirima National Park for a look around. It's only a small park and is almost in the middle of town. It's most famous for being a small easily accesable version of the Bungle Bungle, and a moderately difficult walk to the lookout gives good views over town and the irrigation areas.


Next we took a drive round the irrigation areas and stopped at the two veg shops to stock up. I'm sad and sorry there are no other stalls at farm gates, but the prices were still OK. We bought bananas for $3 per kg, tomatoes for $2 kg, capsicum $3 kg, broccoli for $2 kg, a beautiful ripe, fragrant canteloupe for $1 ea, a big butternut pumpkin for $1 ea and a couple of good sized zucc 50c ea, and corn cobs 40c each (very nice for lunch when we got home). I also bought local chickpeas for $5 per kg-not sure if that's good, but I wanted to try them and the interesting recipes they came with!

After lunch we headed way up the river for a bit more croc spotting-didn't do as well as last time though. It's a beautiful part of the ord river and fun to take our boat up there.

Middle Springs

Today we went to the market-the same veg we bought yesterday were about half as much again so it's lucky we'd already bought them. After that we headed on a drive out of town to Valentine Pool (a lovely temp for a swim later on today I think), then Middle Spring and Black Rock Falls.

Black Rock Falls

There's not much water coming over the falls, but it was a lovely quiet cool spot to sit for half and hour and contemplate our navels. To make a round trip of it, we had to come home over the Ivanhoe Crossing on the Ord River. It looked pretty scary as the water rushed over the two concrete crossings, but Russell assured me it would be safe and it was. The first crossing was about 30 metres and the second around 100 and although they aren't particularly deep, the water goes over at an alarming rate (or so it seemed to me).

Ivanhoe Crossing

We have new neighbours moved in beside us, and it was nice to find out they have been living on the road for 22 months. We do cop a lot of "I don't know how you could do it" from lots of people who say they couldn't leave their house, garden, elderly parents, grand children, golf club, friends etc etc etc for so long si it's interesting to talk to someone who has done it for longer and is still loving it.