Lake Argyle

Crossed the boarder this morning heading for lake Argyle.

The Ord river dam was officially opened in 1972 creating Lake Argyle. Lake Argyle holds x000 gigalitres with only uses 10% of capacity for irrigation. It is the most under-utilised lake in the country.

The resort has a pool they call the infinity pool as it over looks the lake. Every evening we cooled off with a dip watching until after sunset.

The lake is so large and is considered an inland sea, it is home to some very large catfish that are commercially fished and 30,000 freshwater crocodile.

With the lake ready for exploration and with all those fish we hired a tinny and headed off. Pop again was the chief fisherman follow by nan with her sparkling pink lure, me not so good. So I opted for a swim. When the weather blew up amazingly quickly we headed for shelter the water then calmed as the storm front passed over.

A relaxing yoga session was held over looking the pool and we were pleased the Easter bunny delivered whilst we were out watching the sunrise over the dam.Read more