To Infinity And Beyond

After a pleasant night’s sleep at Hidden Valley Caravan Park, Kununurra, we retrace our footprints and travel back to Lake Argyle.

DRIVE: Kununurra to Lake Argyle (91km).

CAMP: Lake Argyle Caravan Park / 2 Night
On arrival, the caravan park is run more like a resort than a camping ground. We check in for two nights and decide to upgrade our unpowered non shady sites to a large full shade site for us all to share. Besides, a bit of power goes all long way charging up our gadgets.

Being next to a massive reservoir of fresh water in Lake Argyle, there’s no shortage of supply. The grounds at the caravan park are lush and it’s bliss to see green grass again.

The caravan park has a unique infinity pool which sits high on the cliff edge overlooking Lake Argyle. It’s an awesome spot and so inviting after surviving a few days in the dust. It’s refreshing to enjoy clean blue water and look at the view, infinity and beyond...

Lake Argyle is an enormous lake created by a dam across The Ord River. The Lake itself is 19 times the size of Sydney Harbour. A major engineering marvel as the dam location is on a fault line, the Ord River Dam commenced construction in 1969 and was completed in December in 1971.

Although still hot at poolside, the sun is not as intense here. Jen finds a sun lounge which currently sits in the shade but she repositions it to enjoy one of her favourite past times... being a lizard. In fact we have given Jen the CB radio call sign “handle”, LIZARD. copy that.

My “handle” is Stevie Coight” and together with The Lloyde’s, we have adopted the name, “The Coight Family”. Again if you are a bit confused, google Russell Coight to watch his outback antics and you can work out how much fun we are giving.

I meet a young female backpacker in the infinity pool and well she’s from Manchester, my home town. We comment on how similar the weather is here to Manchester...! Also a group of fanatical cyclists are cooling off in the pool after a mammoth 5 days and over 600km journey on their mountain bikes from Derby to Kununurra.

The beer garden comes alive after sunset so we sit and have a coldie before dinner listening to a young male guitarist play a repertoire of classic songs. Many of the tour groups and the oldies sit around and order meals from the restaurant but I have a juicy rump steak to prepare with rocket salad.もっと詳しく