On the way we stopped in at the Zebra Rock Mine. We had to drive along a dirt road and open a series of gates. At the last gate Cooper noticed that the front stabilizing leg on the caravan had dropped down and was dragging on the road. Michael quickly stopped after going thru the gate and then we noticed the damage. The leg had wedged itself up into the floor of the tunnel boot and had damaged the slide that the BBQ is on. We couldn't believe that it had happened and were trying to work out when it may have fallen down. We tied the leg up as all the pins had broken off and drove into the mine. We were not in the right frame of mind for shopping so we had a quick look and got out of there as quick as we could.
We drove into Kununura and dropped the van off at the Ivanhoe caravan park and walked up Kelly's Knob just in time to watch the sunset.
After dinner Michael and Stan inspected the damaged and it was bad but it could have been a whole lot worse.
It was a long day!!!!
The next day was my Birthday and after a few little hiccups it turned out be a great day. Michael made me pancakes for breakfast and then we went to Ivanhoe Crossing that is a car crossing with water rushing quite fast over it. We all loved driving over it. Then we went to the Sandlewood factory for a yummy iced chocolate and some shopping, yippee...
We then raced back to the caravan park to pick the van up to take it to the engineers. Just as we were about to hook it up I noticed that it had a flat tyre.... Michael changed the tyre in record time with the help of the boys. We got the repairs done and went to the Pumphouse for dinner with Robyn and Stan. We arrived early and watched the sunset and had a few drinks. The dinner was really nice and the kids loved it as they could see freshwater crocodiles in the water behind the restaurant.
It was a great Birthday.
The next day we drove to Wyndham for the day. We stopped at the big croc statue and saw a boab tree that was over 2000 years old, it was huge. We then drove up to the 5 Rivers lookout. On the way back to Kununurra about 30klms from Wyndham we stopped at the Grotto. You have to walk down 140 man made steps to the pool below that is over 300 ft deep. This is where they hold the Red Bull cliff diving competition. The boys all had a great time swinging from two different ropes into the water. The water was too green for me to go in, I was happy to watch.
That night we went on the Lake Kununurra BBQ Cruise, we all had a great night with a nice barramundi dinner. The view of the sunset and lake was amazing as it gave a mirror image of the sky and trees.
The next day Michael fixed the tunnel boot floor and BBQ slide and he did a great job, you wouldn't even know that anything had happened to it. Then we went to Lake Argyl for the day. First we swam in the caravan parks infinity pool and then we went on the sunset cruise. Lake Argyl is 17.5 times bigger than Sydney Harbour. After spotting lots of freshwater crocs and being told that over 30,000 live in the lake we all jumped in and had a swim and floated around on noodles while the crew thru cold beers out to you. The boys even jumped off the roof. Robyn and I were happy just floating around. There was a little 4 year old girl on the boat that confessed to everyone that she was going to marry Cooper. Poor Cooper he didn't want a bar of it. It was very funny. This was another great day.
The next day Michael took the boys to the skatepark for a quick skate. We then decided to stay another night as we were all exhausted from the last few days. So we got some lunch and went to the celebrity tree park in town and the boys kicked the football around. We then back to Ivanhoe Crossing to try and catch some fish. We had a few bites but didn't catch anything. Home to pack for our first trip in our tent into El Questro as we are leaving the van in Kununurra.
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