8^th July: Kununurra

A rest day before we go to the Bungles. Mostly we went shopping for groceries and Gail bought some Argyle diamonds as you do in Kununurra. I didn't!! Glen repaired the X-trail and bought a new jack. We bent the other one getting the car out of the sandbog. Both Gail and Glen cleaned windscreens so that theycould see out of them. Glen had a chat to a guy who was going up the Gibb River Road. Weare not! 120 cars / vans are wrecked there in a normal week during the dry season or so we were told! Why would you ? It's like the Telegraph track. The domain of the foolhardy who think they have something to prove. Not us!!

Kununurra has a very real tourist season when hoardsof grey nomads visit. Today, half a dozen enormous vans dropped in. Apparently, Coles turns over $1million a week at this time of the year and has difficulty making just $1 million the whole of the rest of the year during the wet. There are 5 big caravan parks in town and today this one was turning away vans. A lot of people on the move!

There are some noisy teenagers and their teachers from Sydney at the BBQ just over from us. No hot water tonight!!

We are going to the Bungles tomorrow, have a helicopter ride and then drive in. We then go to Hall's Creek and Fitzroy Crossing. Who knows when we will have internet access again! I will write the blog but post when we can.