Wednesday...17 August 2011

Missed yesterdays blog. Too darn tired!
We went out to the Ord Dam or Lake Argyle and toured the area, drove over the spillway wall etc. It really is very beautiful out there. Water everywhere.

Then we came back into town and took a scenic flight with Alligator Airways in a small 6 seater plane that left Kununurra and tracked out over the vast irrigation fields of the Ord River Irrigation Project to Lake Argyle and we flew over the entire length of it, seemed to take forever. Lake Argyle is 23 times bigger than Sydney Harbour and during the wet season it can be 64 times bigger. It is classified as an inland sea. And it is all man made!
From there we passed over a couple of cattle stations and had a view of the edge of the Tanami Desert and arrived at Purnululu National Park, better known as the Bungle Bungles.
We landed at the Bungle Bungle airstrip to collect a couple of passengers and when we got back in the air we circled the Bungles for 15 minutes looking at places like Cathedral Gorge and Piccaninny Creek and Echnidna Chasm. Stunning.
On the way back to Kununurra we flew over the famous Arygle Diamond Mine, just another mine from the air but the diamonds in that mine are the highest quality in the world. Quite a big day and three hours in a tiny little plane with no room to stretch legs or even move around is rather tiring.