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Traveler Ozeanien und Indochina 17
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- Sep 26, 2017, 10:00am
- ☀️ 34 °C
- Altitude: 86 m
- Australia Western Australia Wyndham-East Kimberley Lake Argyle Tourist Village Chinyin Island -16.123415, 128.75274216°7’24” S 128°45’10” E
Day 22
Lake Argyle
September 26, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 34 °C
Lake Argyle stellt gemessen an der Oberfläche den grössten Stausee dar. Dieser wurde aus wirtschaftlichen Gründen angelegt, damit die Farmer immer Wasser zur Verfügung haben und dies zu einem günstigen Preis. Heute wird der Staudamm zusätzlich zur Stromgewinnung verwendet und speist die gesamte Gegend mit Strom.

Am Morgen ging es auf zu einer 2 Stündigen Bootstour durch den See, dabei sahen wir sehr viele Tiere, wie das Woleebee, verschiedene Fische und Krokodile.
Kurz vor dem Ende bekamen wir noch die Möglichkeit zu Schwimmen und von höheren Felsenvorsprüngen zu Springen.Read more
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- Aug 18, 2019, 9:00pm
- 🌙 21 °C
- Altitude: 86 m
- Australia Western Australia Wyndham-East Kimberley Lake Argyle Tourist Village Chinyin Island -16.12031, 128.7440216°7’13” S 128°44’38” E
Day 156
Lake Argyle
August 18, 2019 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 21 °C
Lake Argyle was absolutely stunning. Best place to visit soo far. We were staying 2 days but ended up staying 3. We did the sunset cruise. We saw crocodiles running themselves on the banks. The lake is 70km long and 30km wide. It's huge. We only covered 20km and we could just see water as far as the eye could see.
We drove across the dam wall one night and took photos at sunset also. I managed to capture the best photos ever with reflections on the rocks onto the water. Fabulous.Read more
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- May 28, 2023, 9:50am
- ☀️ 21 °C
- Altitude: 183 m
- Australia Western Australia Wyndham-East Kimberley Lake Argyle Tourist Village Chinyin Island -16.118418, 128.74522416°7’6” S 128°44’43” E
Day 26
Bluff Lookout and Homestead Museum
May 28, 2023 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
Today, whilst Wiebe fixed some things on the car and camper (successfully - hooray!), the kids and I did a 4km hike to Bluff Lookout and the Homestead Museum. The hike took us around the cove closest to the caravan park, across a dry creek, over the range and opened up to a scenic view across Lake Argyle to Pannakin Bay and surrounding ranges in the east and ending at a lookout across the lake and ranges to the south. Max was able to recall the ranges furthest in the distance as “the place where we saw all those cane toads” (ie Cathedral Gorge in the Bungles).

After the lookout and a small smackerel of muesli bars and fruit we continued on to the Homestead Museum, an 1890s house home to the pioneering Durack family who had extensive pastoral leases in the Kimberley and were involved in the damming of the Ord River and the creation of Lake Argyle as it is today.

An interesting side note, was to discover that Lucy Durack an actor from Wicked fame, is a descendant of the family.Read more
Living on the other side of the world it is great fun to be able to follow you on your trip! Thanks to your frequent reports and with some help from Google Earth and Wkipedia etc. we travel with you. We tried to imagine how far away from home you are. Starting in our hometown we would have to cross all Europe to end up somewhere in the Middle East... Insane. Most of all we are pleased to see you and the children so relaxed and healthy. One question: is there any possible danger in the many crocodiles? Brrr... [Doaitse]
5/28/23Reply
Traveler Well, the risk is never zero, but very low. Fresh water crocodiles are smaller and not aggressive like their salt water cousins, so all quite safe :-)
5/30/23Reply
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Callaways and a Camper 365 Nights on a Stretcher Bed
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- Aug 10, 2017
- ☀️ 32 °C
- Altitude: 86 m
- Australia Western Australia Wyndham-East Kimberley Lake Argyle Tourist Village Chinyin Island -16.122899, 128.74615616°7’22” S 128°44’46” E
Day 105
Lake Argyle
August 10, 2017 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
Thursday 10-8
We decided to go to Lake Argyle today so we set off and we went up to a lookout and had a look at Lake Argyle and the dam. When they built the dam, they built it 67 metres above the surface and when we looked at it it was about 15 metres above the surface of the water. After we’d finished looking over the lookout we drove across the dam to the picnic area. W.A. time is an hour and a half later than N.T. so we had a little snack. The people on the table next to us offered a chicken drumstick around and dad and I couldn't refuse a drumstick so we shared it between us.
We then went to the boat ramp and had a little swim, we were skimming rocks and then one of the cruise boats came in and one of the tour guides came over and said “can you throw a rock in the water without making a splash?” He had a couple of goes except he couldn't do it. He described how to do it. You need to get a small flat rock and back spin it quite hard and it goes in the water with only making bubbles and ripples. At first I wasn't very good except on my fourth go I did it.
We went to the museum about lake argyle and there were lots of rooms with photos in them and one of the rooms was based on when the big flood came. One of the photos on the wall was of a man standing on his roof with some photographers taking a photo of him.Read more
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