Latest pictures, show there is plenty to do in the North of the country. Hire a little or large motor home from Darwin and take yourself to some of these wonderful places.
We have now been on the road two months.
We discovered The Grotto while driving to Wyndham on The Cambridge Gulf. Situation: Sixty kms from Kununurra. On the surface of the land it just looks like a big hole in the ground. If you walk down 140 un-railed steps and climb over some rocks, you will find this cool gorge. Some people were swimming in it. In the wet, there are magnificent waterfalls falling into this underground chasm from the surrounding hills and the water would be many metres deep.
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| The Grotto |
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| The Grotto 2 |
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| The Grotto 3 |
Yesterday we called in to HCJB, a non denominational Christian company sending the gospel message and other helpful information into SE Asia, India and the South Pacific. Everything is done by volunteers from building the towers to managing the stations and the program dispersal to the right country at the right time. God has provided many miracles to set up this station. It is received on short-wave radio on small radios. Friends, Mary and Howard Jones have spent part of the last 3 years helping in this work and will arrive later this week for a further period. They also grow bananas and mangos at HCJB and would love some volunteers to help do all kinds of jobs.
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| Look carefully and you will see the tall HCJB antennae |
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| Another view of HCJB |
The Jacana bird is also known as “The Jesus Bird”, because it seems to walk on water. Its finely spread toes allow its weight to be distributed so gently on lily pads and sea grasses, that it appears to walk on the water. They are busy little birds, and Graeme captured this one as it was about to fly. We have only seen them fly very low over the water and not very far. So I call this one “the dancing Jacana”.
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| Jacana about to fly |
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| Jacana reflection |
Finally, a flight to the Bungle Bungles. This also included The Argyle Diamond Mine - the richest diamond mine in the World. The workers work for 3 weeks on site then go home for one week. Half the people employed are Aboriginal, or this is at least a goal of the company. One lady told me she had bought 5 houses in 2 years since her husband has been working on that mine. She plants Chinese Sandalwood trees, which is a major industry in Kununurra. These trees are parasites, so they have to be grown with other trees. It takes 15 years from planting to harvest. In the pictures you will also see Lake Argyle that we flew over today, the land forms, the dam wall of Lake Argyle, produce grown on the Ord River Scheme, and the Lake Argyle caravan park where we spent two days enjoying the dam.
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| Bungle Bungles |
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| The plane we flew in |
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| Crops around Kununurra |
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| Bungle Bungles |
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| Mt Diamond Open Cut Mine |
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| Lake Argyle |
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| Crops around Kununurra |
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| Spillway from Lake Kununurra |
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