Ok today we drove over to Wyndham.
When we arrived we drove to the port. There was a small cruise ship but access to the wharf was blocked so had to admire it from the roadside. The boat was the Orion which tours from Broome to Darwin to Bali and return. Most of the action at the Wyndham port these days is the export beef cattle trade. Wyndham used to have a huge meatworks but that was sold off and then burnt down and finally shut. Now there is only the cattle and bauxite being shipped from Wyndham.
The highlight of any trip to Wyndham is a must do trip to the Five Rivers Lookout. The road to this lookout is 3.7km of very steep winding road and can be a bit hairy but oh boy the view!!!
From up there you can see The Durak River, The King River, The Ord River, The Pentacost River and the Forrest River all running into the Cambridge Gulf which is the inlet that Wyndham sits in.
Then we bounced 25km out a dirt road to look at the famous Prison Tree. This is a huge Boab tree. In the early years of settlement the police used the hollow centre as a prison to hold prisoners during the wet season when they were unable to transport them to the jail in Wyndham because the roads were under water. Himself had no trouble getting in but quickly discovered that getting out again was a touch tricky which is no doubt why they used it to hold prisoners!!!
We also stopped and looked at the Moochalabra Dam which is the water supply for Wyndham and we went through the Museum which was full of fascinating information about the history of the town. We also learnt about the Koolama which was bombed by the Japanese during WW2 in 1942 and after it limped back to Wyndham, it sank 40m from the jetty and is still there.
We were going to have a quick look at El Questro on the way home but ran out of time. Never mind we will take a look next time.
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