Saturday...8 June 2013

Saturday already. Where did the week go? Oh well never mind maybe I will find it hiding around a corner somewhere next week!
Big day today. We packed up and left Katherine by 9 am and headed off with a plan to go to Timber Creek, but we had such a good run we were there before lunch and decided it was way too early to stop, so continued with a new plan to stay in a free camp half way between Timber Creek and Kununurra. You guessed it, the thing was full and it was still only mid afternoon, so we decided to head to Kununurra and then realised that we were about to get 1.5 hours extra time by crossing the border into WA which meant we were arriving just after lunch instead of mid afternoon, so 509 km later here we are in Kununurra. This meant we got an extra hour and a half in our day but it also meant we had to wait that extra hour and a half for happy hour!
Passed a nasty accident during the afternoon. A road train cattle truck had somehow tipped over the back trailer and whilst the driver seemed to be shaken but unhurt, sadly some of the cows were not so lucky. Very distressing.
On a lighter note we got the usual Welcome Home at the border quarantine station. The lovely people who work there always say that when they see a WA number plate. I look forward to my little welcome reception.
We are parked up at the local show grounds and got a treat this evening with a round of the local football being played on the oval beside us. One of the Kununurra teams played a team from Halls Creek. The home team won.