Ran our of room, energy and superlatives on the last blog so thought I would take a break and start again on the rest of the journey through the north. Thought I might start with some statistics first.
We have covered over 11300km since we started. We have used 1720L of fuel at a cost of $2500.
We carry on the ute - 200L of fuel,100L of water, 3 spare tyres and we have used and replaced them all. We also still carry 3 blocks of cypress pine from Barakula State Forest (nearly 10 weeks ago) but Kerry has promised he will burn them at the Gregory or they will have nearly circumnavigated Australia!!!
Anyway back to Wyndham.The view from The Five Rivers Lookout was quite a vista. This pic overlooks the wharf area where they still offload iron ore.
Some of the old machinery in Wyndham
One of the 4 cemetries in Wyndham - many sad young deaths from the early days of construction in the heat and with limited medical facilities
Some Aboriginal Rock Art near Wyndham
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Wave rock - formed by water lapping onto sand millions of years ago which then hardened into rock
Wyndham's dam
Another boab prison tree
Many people thinks it is important to carve their names in these!!!
Lake Argyle and THE pool
Sunset cruise on the Lake
Intake tower
Such a small dam wall for such a huge lake - holds the equivalent of 14 Sydney Harbours
Hope you can see the short eared rock wallaby - very shy hiding in the cave
Plenty of freshies hiding I
Catfish aplenty also and the occasional grunter and trigger fish
A family of euros
We swam in the Lake at sunset - right in the middle about 20m deep and no land for kms
Well looked after with wine, beer and nibbles
More of the Lake the next morning
The aborigines call this Sorry Place - many of their sacred sites, graves and art were covered by the Lake
The original Argyle Homestead - relocated to high ground and the story of the Duracks and how it all came to be
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Great catching up with u Kerry 2day, thanks again for the great posts Alison,i couldnt
ReplyDeletesee the rock wallaby you will have to point him out next time we visit!? That lake looks big will have to google it eh!?. That crane and clam bucket i reckon would probably still work jus stoke the boiler.You can tell how dry it is by the condition the old machinery is still in!?
I bet that swim was awesome pool and lake!.Hope u didnt get a rash from that mango tree Kerry while we were talking ha! Anyways soon be well in Qld territory so point the ole horse in the right direction and watch those dingcrocalades
(long for corrugations but with respectable meaning ha) Take care guys!!
Those Boab trees are so sad!!
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