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Lake Argyle

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Are We There Yet?

Lake Argyle was spectacular. When we left Brisbane we hadn’t even really heard of Lake Argyle and did not have any plans to stop in there. However, nearly every person we spoke to along the way on the trip said we had to go in and see it and we are so glad we did – it is really difficult to explain how beautiful it was. So, some photos first.

The drive in to Lake Argyle was really pretty

Our campsite at Lake Argyle

The amazing infinity pool – it was freezing though!!!

The pool was an attraction in its own right!

The Dam wall

At the lookout over the dam wall

The Ord River & release valves

Nice picnic spot at the bottom of the dam wall

The Lake is massive! It is Australia’s largest fresh water lake and covers an area of more than 900 square kilometres! We camped for two nights at the campground there and one of the perks of having our trip shortened was that we have been able to splash out on a few things we otherwise wouldn’t have been able to afford to do and one of those was a sunset cruise on the Lake. We all really enjoyed the cruise which was good as it was very expensive!!! The cruise started at 1pm in the reception area with a history on the building of the lake and we then spent the rest of the afternoon until about 6pm cruising around on the lake. The photos give you a bit of an idea of what we got to see …………………

Cruising

The boys got to have a go at driving the boat

We all loved looking out the back of the boat

We got to spot our first freshwater crocodile

Fish feeding time

Euros on one of the islands on the lake

Just beautiful

Matt jumping off the roof of the boat for a swim in the lake

Jack got in too but he was very nervous about swimming with freshwater crocodiles – beers were thrown out to all those swimming

Sunset

Just beautiful

The cruise was extravagant but we all loved it! The other great thing about Lake Argyle was that we met a lovely family from Townsville here and spent a great night chatting to them around the campfire – we then got to meet up with them again at Middle Lagoon and it has been a real highlight of the trip for us to meet some great new friends! Big shout out to Geoff, Trice and the kids – we’ll catch up with you again back in Far North Qld!!!

Lake Argyle is a definite must see in our book!!!

Cool guy performing some good music at the pub at the campground – he plays regularly at the Newfarm bowls club for any Brisbaneites!

Great campfire at Lake Argyle

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So much to tell you!

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Are We There Yet?

I am madly trying to get this post out while we have reception here in Kununurra – we have sooooooo much we want to share with you all and after two weeks without any phone or internet reception – we have heaps to say!!! We have just finished a very quick week on the Gibb River Road and are in Kununurra to refuel and restock on food before we spend our final week on the road heading back to Far North Qld. I am sitting in the park ‘watching’ the kids in the playground and Matt is on the phone trying to get a few things organised for our arrival in Mareeba in ten days time. From here – we are just going to drive each day until we decide to stop – lots of long days on the road coming up. We are all feeling a bit sad that we did our last gorge hike at Emma Gorge this morning. The last few weeks on the road have been amazing – so, so, so good! Fingers crossed we get a bit of internet reception over the next few nights so I can pump a few posts out!

But, in the meantime, I thought I would give you a quick update on what we have been doing since I last did a proper blog entry about our time in Katherine Gorge.

From Katherine we headed over the border into new territory for all of us – Western Australia – very exciting! We spent the first two days in Kununurra (yep – we have come full circle as that is where we are today!) getting Peter Prado serviced and new tyres.

Boab Tree in Kunnunurra

Then we headed out to Lake Argyle which was spectacular!

Sunset boat cruise on Lake Argyle

From Lake Argyle we pushed over to Broome (you saw our little video of our time there – so good!).

My photographer boy in Broome!

We then spent a week camping at Middle Lagoon and exploring Cape Leveque which was just so beautiful and relaxing!

Quality time at Middle Lagoon

Epic sandcastle Matt & the kids built at Middle Lagoon

One Arm Point – beautiful!

Cape Leveque

We dragged ourselves away from Middle Lagoon and after talking to lots of other families while we were staying there – we decided to do a quick one week trip along the Gibb River Road to commence our journey back to the East Coast. The Gibb River Road was not quite the ‘highway’ everybody said it was – saying it was in very good condition – it was still pretty rough but we have had a great time!