Ord River adventure

Here we go!! 53k's ahead of us. June,Bill,Monty,Debbie,Paul, Marilyn, Jane and Colin good-luck guys!!

Last lunch and all still smiling!!

Lily lagoon, nearly home

Sunrise of the third day no sleep ins for us, daylight at 5am and a chorus of birds to wake us.

Cooling off!!

The locals are only little thank heavens, the day we arrived back safe and sound they had on the news that a salty(crocodile) had been shot in the Ord holy moly what ever where we doing??? We only saw the one and he was a fresh water croc and fairly harmless.

As they say adventure before dementia but I'm not sure I think we are slightly crazy. Three days in a canoe was hard yakka but the views where amazing and all up I think we enjoyed ourselves, do it again might be a big ask at the moment???

Mirima National Park Walk-Kununarra

And after the walk your allowed to relax in the pool the only cool place around here I can tell you.

So here we are, we where talking to some other Tasmanians and they took a photo for us

So many wild flowers this year the rain has brought them on early unfortunately I don't know their names or rather I can't remember

They call this place the mini Bungle Bungles with good reason it looks very similar

Huge Boab tree they come in some many shapes

What a beautiful place and just a short walk from the caravan park but sooooo hot today just as well we went early.

Hall's Creek - Kununarra 21-05-10

Crocodile Bill, me and my hat ah

All together again in Kununarra

Sunset over the camp ground at the back of the Hidden Valley caravan park a lot of young backpackers here all living in tents and working their way around Aust. interesting to talk to them.

The clouds where amazing and this is the back of Paul and Marilyn's van going along the highway the things you do to pass the time on the black stuff(bitumin)

After another wet night in Hall's Creek and a lovely meal at the Kimberley Hotel we headed out for Kununarra approx 370k's away. It"s give way to live stock around here.

Tanami Rd

Refueling ready for the next stretch, Kununarra here we come.

They always give you plenty of warning

Down town Hall's Creek and plenty of people are caught here and can't continue at least we got through before they closed the road.

The last section into Hall's Creek was very rough so we used the track off to the side still no sunshine but at least it had stopped raining.

Coming into Wolfe Creek Crater

Stuart Creek we camped near here

Left photo is the road into Wolfe Creek Crater we did actually get through with the vans the water was about 500m made for great video footage

This is about day three and as you can see it was starting to get interesting

Oops these things do happen and it always seems to be after the rain starts.

The wild flowers are amazing this is a holly grevillia

Tanami Rd

After four days in Alice we headed off into the next stage of our adventure the Tanami Desert Rd 1,000k's into Western Aust. Marilyn and Paul came with us

After four days in Alice we started out on the next stage of our adventure the Tanami Desert rd 1,000k's into Western Aust it took us six days and instead of dust and corrugations we had mud,mud and more mud but still it was great and we had a ball.

Trephina Gorge Alice Springs

Enjoying the sun, no tan yet still working on it.

Plenty of water in the gorge itself and some people where skinny dipping(not us)

River view on the way in(photo on the right)

Alice Springs continued

This monolith is an aboriginal site but they don't really thing they had corroborees here as there is no permament water the significent of it has been lost over time but still a pretty impressive rock

Alice Springs continued

What a great day we left early a drove out the Ross River Hwy heading for Ruby Gap and visited a couple of great places along the way we had morning tea at John Hayes Rockhole and went for a nice little walk up the gorge and then around the rim, meet some nice people that we originally meet at Coober Pedy "small world" as they say.

Unfortunately the road into Ruby Gap was washed away they have had some pretty big floods up this way recently and the roads are not repaired yet even so Teraphin Gorge was worth the drive also Corroboree Rock beautiful country side the East McDonnell Ranges love the colours and it is so green and lush at the moment. Fuel prices at Ross River Resort where a bit high $2.23/litre glad we didn't have to buy any there the dearest we have seen on the way up was $1.71 at some road-house but with the double fuel tank we lasted to Alice which was great.

Alice

Palm Valley

Not locals "silly buggers" great day had by all

Palm Valley

Another little local from Palm Valley you have to be quick

Palm Valley

One of the locals he looks for all the world as if he's sky-diving.

Palm Valley

Morning tea at Palm Valley Bill is trying out all his new toys in the truck he has yet to cook us a cake??

Alice Spings Palm Valley

What a beautiful place this is we had a great day

Rainbow Valley

We came in here to Rainbow Valley to have a look really beautiful part of the country and as you can see I'm still doing my stretches looking after this back of mine. We didn't get into Kings Canyon as our friends had a problem with their van so from here we heading into Alice Spings

May 10th - 13th 2010

Coober Pedy Marilyn, Debbie and June sight-seeing

Down town Coober Pedy just on dusk.