Mini Bungles & Hoochery Distillery

We woke up at 6am this morning and ate our breakfast. We decided to drive to Mirima National Park which is on Miriwoong Dawang country. The rock sculptures and valleys we were walking through were over 300 million years old with steep drop offs and gorges.

As we walked along the trail we came across indigenous artwork of hands, barramundi fish and a crocodile. There were signs relating to the drawings relating to what they did in the past time and paintings may have reflected what they hunted in the area.

As we walked through the park we came across different plants and Boab trees, and even met some bird watchers that were looking at a brown pidgeon. We completed the walk by heading up to the lookout where pm there were beautiful views across Kununurra to the Cockburn ranges.

We then decided to drive to the Hoochery Distillery as it opened at 9am to complete a tasting. The Hoochery Distillery is the oldest continually operating legal distillery in Western Australia. The rum is produced using sugarcane grown on the farm and rainwater, with everything fermented, distilled, and aged on-site in reconditioned oak barrels. The Ord River Valley’s climate gives the rum a distinctive smoothness that locals boast can’t be replicated anywhere else! The gin is also made on site using local botanicals.

We decided to try a tasting of both the rum and gin. We tried the spiced rum, aged rum and coffee/chocolate flavoured rum. I was not a fan of the rum but the gin was delicious. We decided to buy 2 bottles of gin and 1 bottle of the aged spiced rum. It was a lovely morning and we relaxed in the outside area.

We then drove towards Ivanhoe Crossing and passed a lot of cotton farms where it looked like a field of snow.Read more