Monday, September 7, 2009

September 1, Day 130 Kununurra

Yay we finally made it to WA.

Well we are back in a caravan park, hopefully this one will be better. On the upside, we are camped by the swimming pool and Erin is surrounded by other kids, one girl is a year above her with the same distance ed school and share some of the same teachers.

We ended up spending 5 nights at Keep River NP staying at Jarnem campground 32km from the Victoria Highway. The weather got hotter and hotter with days reaching mid 40's and the temperature staying at 30 deg until well after 10.30pm. We spent our days in bathers pouring the occasional cup over our heads as there was nowhere to swim. Erin was fantastic, she managed to cram as much school work into last week end as she could so she could have time off when we got to Kununurra.

Even with the hot weather, we did get up at dawn one morning and trekked the 8km loop walk at the campground, returning to camp at around 9.30am. I felt for the several people who were just starting the walk as we finished it, we were sweating buckets. The camp ground was pretty quiet with only a couple of other campers most nights, our second last night was on our own and our last was with at least a 8 other campers, so you just can't tell when a place will be busy or not. The ranger told us that the month before was crowded and it was hard to get a spot, so we obviously timed it well.  Spectacular place.

We got to Kununurra this morning and gained 1 ½ hours with the time change, so we managed to fit a bit more into our day today. While shopping in Coles we bumped into a couple who we'd been camping with at Clem Walton (near Cloncurry), small world, they were supposed to be heading south at Three Ways but they got as far as Tennant Creek, changed their minds and decided to check out Darwin then WA instead, very funny couple.