We survived Halls Creek and are now in Warmun (formerly Turkey Creek) Roadhouse CP for a couple of nights. It's a tiny park and we are wedged in like sardines, but we need to stay here so we can go back 50ks to the turn off to Bungle Bungle NP in the morning-then it's 53ks in to the info centre.
Yesterday we took a lovely drive out of Halls Creek to China Walls, Old Town and Caroline's Pool. It is great to start and see the sort of scenery that leaves you thinking the Kimberly may actually be as beautiful as the Pilbara. We had come through 1000 ks of "Savanna" which mostly consisted of dead flat land covered with just over head-height shrubs. My sister called it "tedious" and I have to agree. Now we are in much more interesting country.
Caroline"s Pool
I left Halls Creek feeling very sorry for the locals. Although there are over 3000 of them, it isn't particularly well serviced. Most places it's size around here have a large (and cheaper) supermarket, chemist, hardware, sports store, etc, but the place is dismal. It does however have a pub and another liquor store and they seemed like pretty good places to stand outside and hurl abuse at each other!
On the way here, the electic plug that connects the van to the car and powers the brakes, lights and fridge fell out and the plug came off. Right now Russ is trying to get hold of "Chook" who lives at the community nearby and is something of a mechanic!
No comments:
Post a Comment