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23 June 2019
Back to the gym today for Bill and I followed by the big supermarket shop in preparation for embarking on the Gibb River Road tomorrow. After a quick lunch we drive the 70 km out to Lake Argyle. We had a quick look at the Durack Homestead, which was built by the Durack family in the mid 1800’s. It originally stood where Lake Argyle now is, and before the area was flooded every stone was numbered and the house taken down, and then put back together exactly the same in the location it now stands. We drove over the dam wall just cause, and then headed off on a 3 hour sunset boat tour. It was fantastic. Lake Argyle is the second largest man made lake in Australia, with Lake Gordon and Lake Pedder being the biggest (shameful moment for me that I live down there and didn’t know that!)
Bill was pretty quiet whilst we were heading over the 1 cm chop, however perked up a bit when we got to go for a swim. We saw lots of freshwater crocs, rock wallabies and fed archer fish by holding bread up in the air and then they shoot water at it trying to knock it down. Very cool. With over 30,000 freshwater crocs in the lake, we can now say that we have swum in croc infested waters. Not too many people went swimming which meant that I had the dip and bikkies that was floated out on an esky lid all to myself for awhile. Winner winner chicken dinner. The sunset was beautiful. We got back to Kununurra around 7pm and grabbed fish and chips for dinner. The potato cake was an absolute shocker. 0.5/5. I think we’ve found Australia’s worst potato cake whilst on the #huntforaustraliasbestpotatocake
Travelling the Big Island 