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  Kununurra, Western Australia, Australia
Saturday, August 28, 2010

We did the trip from Derby to Kununurra with just one overnight on the side of the road.  This border town has always fascinated me.  It's a fairly new town, developed in the '60's through the construction of the Ord Irrigation Scheme.  It's so pleasant to have no water restrictions, the parks are green, you can wash cars, it just feels cool sitting  beside the water.

We've spent a week here with plenty to do but the highlight was definitely a floatplane flight to Lake Argyle.  We took a drive there first but realised that even the boat tours could not show the immense expanse of the lake,  so we took a flight and landed on the water for morning tea on one of the numerous islands.  It was a real thrill.

We drove to Wyndham but that is certainly a dying town, although talking to the locals, they love living there.  They have the best museum that we've seen, there is just so much history in this part of the country.  The town was gazetted in 1886 and with the gold rush days of Halls Creek, the pioneering cattle families and the construction of the Wyndham meatworks in 1913 it gave an insight into the Kimberley region.  Unfortunately cattle export has now decreased and the only decent buildings in town are the shire offices.

I put in a photo of Ivanhoe Crossing which is north of town on an alternative gravel road to Wyndham.  We just went there to have a look but did not cross over, when we went to Wyndham we took the main sealed road!

Tomorrow we will be heading across the border into the Northern Territory for the next chapter.

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Lily Creek Lagoon	Our plane on a deserted island	View of Lake Argyle	Ord River and plantations

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