The Bungle Bungles

Great excitement as we headed to our gorges and our walks for the day we passed  or it passed us ... a dingo! Many stories of what the dingo may have taken.

My favourite "dingo" joke  at the time of dingo jokes was the one about the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior which goes...
Question-"Do you know who they are looking for the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior?"
Answer- "A dingo with an aqua lung."

And so back to the Bungle Bungles....

First the walk  to Picaninny Gorge

 

Then we got brave and did a helicopter flight- you do not get airsick in a helicopter!

After lunch we headed to Echidna Gorge

The cold showers, the tent, the early get up all were truly worth the joy of seeing this beautiful part of Australia.

Travel from Lake Argyle to the Bungle Bungles

Statement of the "bleedin'" obvious at Ivanhoe Crossing. The Ord River in flood.

We stopped at Warmun (used to be called Turkey Creek). Warmun is one of the main centres for east Kimberley Aboriginal art. It is a small Aboriginal community, 200 kilometres south of Kununurra in far north Western Australia. It was known as Turkey Creek for many years, but has reverted to the Aboriginal name for the area. The main language of the region is Gija. But we only stopped for lunch. The link to the website with details of the history and the work of Rover Thomas, whose photo and details were  displayed in the shop at "Turkey Creek". Some of the art work was on display from the Warmun Community art centre but the art centre itself was closed due to the floods earlier in the year. Reports of the flooding are linked here and the photo is proof, for you in particular Martha, that I couldn't get there and try to buy you your own Rover Thomas art work.
 
However I did sneak a few shots of things.

 Even the rocks in the carpark/parking lot,  were works of art.

El Questro to Lake Argyle

The full moon was still in view as we left El Qustro

We stopped to look at the raging torrents of the Ord River and spotted our first fresh water crocodile

The Ord River surging along

On Lake Argyle the euros came down to the water's edge for grass and water

Sunset and reflections on Lake Argyle

and again

Lake Argyle is part of the Ord River Irrigation System which has transformed this dry region into a lush agricultural oasis.

Day four began with a laze in the hot springs

What a lovely way to begin the day- however one had to arrive early to find a spot in the idyllic hot springs.

A waterfall at Zebedee Springs, located in the El Questro Wilderness Park in the Kimberley of Western Australia. Zebedee Springs is a warm thermal spring nestled in amongst a small pocket of lush rain forest. A very magical place. Visitors can go for a swim in the springs. 


As we were traveling Michele and I were constantly on the lookout for a range of things one of which was trying to get "that" shot which depicted in our minds the view most like a Fred Williams painting.. given that his photos are of the Pilbara and we were in the Kimberley it was a fairly ambitious thing to attempt- made even more ambitious by trying to take the photo from the "truck" as we drove along the ever so bumpy Gibb River Road.

Hopefully you can see why we attempted this.

The other thing that took my fancy was a painting by Lin Onus that I had seen before we came away...

    and then the rocks underwater in this creek just illustrated to me why he painted the things he did.