-- From Halls Creek to Kununurra
The road tracklog
from Halls Creek to Kununurra
from 02/11 to 08/11/2009
On November 02, after having published an update of my website at Telecentre in Creek Halls, I took the Great Northern Hwy up to the junction with Victoria Hwy where Cockburn Rest Area is. When I arrived a storm occurred with a pouring rain. The sealed road was without much interest. However I saw my first Boab trees and the landscape changed, some sandstone medium mountains appeared. Patricia and Sophie joined me under a driving rain.
En route
Great Northern Hwy
02/11/2009
En route
Great Northern Hwy
02/11/2009
The day of November 03 was devoted to discovered Wyndham with Patricia and Sophie. On the way we stopped in Grotto cut in the multicoloured sandstone where we saw fauna of the eponym river, it was a peaceful place where tree rustle and bird song were favourable with meditation.
The Grotto
Wyndham
03/11/2009
The Grotto
Wyndham
03/11/2009
At the entry of Wyndham, 20 meter length Crocodile welcomes visitors. Then it was Five Rivers Lookout/Bastion Ranges offering a superb view on the port and the countryside around.
Le "Croc"
Wyndham
03/11/2009
At a supermarket we went shopping for the lunch that we had in Marlqu Billabong inside the bird observatory. We spent most of the afternoon there to look at birds while waiting for a mild temperature. We established the bivouac at Prison Boab Tree where aboriginals remained at the end of the 19th century.
Marlgu Billabong
Wyndham
03/11/2009
Marlgu Billabong
Wyndham
03/11/2009
Prison Boab Tree
Wyndham
03/11/2009
Prison Boab Tree
Morning low angle light
Wyndham
04/11/2009
On 04/11 in Kununurra, I continued the study two of the three problems which I have to solve before the end of the year to knowing the purchase of four new tyres and the control of my truck in Motor Vehicle Registration. A very helpful lady at the "Police Station" informed me that main cities on the western coast of the WA had a MVR. Not having always any news from Michelin Australia, I looked for a tyre dealer, in fact "Tyrepower", someone after having made a call told me that Michelin had only one tyre available but that in a month a restocking would be done, in Perth. Finally the Visitor Centre assured me that Mitchell National Park was closed and that consequently Mitchell Falls were not accessible. In the early afternoon I settled in Kimberleyland Holiday Park at the edge of Lilly Creek Lagoon.
On 05/11, I continued my investigations looking for Michelin tyres at Telecentre in Kununurra. I had contacted Olivier LECOURT who gave me the address of one of his friends in Australia, I sent him an email. Then I moved towards the Lake Argyle which is the second largest artificial lake in Australia. The surrounding plains were irrigated and fauna increased with some being struck off endangered species lists. The result is positive in spite of lack of water in the lake which did not reach the height desired by absence of rainfall. The spot of Lake Argyle Village is pleasant, however it is not at the edge of the lake. I remained two nights.
Lake Argyle
04/11/2009
Lake Argyle
04/11/2009
Lake Argyle
04/11/2009
Lake Argyle
04/11/2009
On this Saturday November 07 I left Lake Argyle as of daybreak to return again to Kununurra to see the city from the Lookout of Kellys Knob. Alas the sky was covered and a quite scanty light.
Vu de Kellys Knob
Kununurra
07/11/2009
Then I went for a walk in Mirima National Park that a booklet describes as being a small Purnululu NP, maybe. Landscapes were dramatic and tracks were well marked by explanatory panels, always very didactic. I show below three examples of geological comments and two pictures in situ as demonstration.
Mirima NP
07/11/2009
Mirima NP
07/11/2009
Mirima NP
07/11/2009
Dreamtime Landscape
Mirima NP
07/11/2009
Mirima NP
07/11/2009
In the late morning I headed again to the campsite of Kimberleyland where I remained two nights in order to publish an update of my website on Monday morning before traversing the terrible Gibb River Road up to Brome last target of Savannah Way.
